Europe 1 with AFP 5:13 p.m., August 14, 2022
A 60-year-old was beheaded with a knife on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Saint-Priest, in the Lyon area and his 25-year-old son, arrested at the scene, was arrested.
The first elements of the investigation into this "murder by decapitation" show that the man taken into custody "killed his 60-year-old father with a kitchen knife".
A 60-year-old was beheaded with a knife on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Saint-Priest, in the Lyon area and his 25-year-old son, arrested at the scene, was arrested.
The first elements of the investigation into this "murder by decapitation" show that the man in police custody "killed his 60-year-old father with a kitchen knife", the Lyon prosecutor's office told the AFP.
A suspect already known to the police
During the night, "around 2 a.m., the municipal police alert the national police to the discovery of a decapitated body in a parking lot. The municipal police report that a man is walking around with a head in one hand and a knife in his other," according to a source familiar with the matter.
Police officers from the BAC, who arrived as reinforcements, managed to arrest this man "who tried to stab them, without hurting them", according to the same source.
The suspect, a Moroccan in a regular situation, is known "for facts of common law, family disputes on the background of alcohol and narcotics", according to this same source.
The reason still unknown
The man who was taken into custody is not known for acts of radicalism, according to the same source.
The investigation entrusted to the Rhône Departmental Security "should determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy as well as its motive and deepen the personality of its author", according to the Lyon prosecutor's office.