Tuesday evening, the Lyon police had to intervene at the home of a couple from Oullins following a marital dispute. It was the woman who alerted them. Upon their arrival, the police discovered her partner holed up in the bathroom, the Sûreté du Rhône said on Wednesday. The man was prostrate in the tub with a butcher knife he had stuck in his neck.
The police then carried out the first aid gestures in connection with the telephone with a team of firefighters and the Samu, while waiting for them to arrive in turn on the spot. They managed to maintain a slight pulse, which made it possible to “save in time” the person concerned, specify the doctors of the Edouard Herriot hospital, where the man was taken in emergency. An investigation is underway.