Police illustration. - Tom Chanal / SIPA

A 43-year-old man stabbed a security guard after being driven back from a bar in Brest for lack of a mask, seriously injuring his eye, we learned from the Brest police on Sunday.

"He was indicted for attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention," the Brest prosecutor's office said on Sunday evening.

"Several stab wounds, including one in the eye"

Friday evening around midnight, in the city center of Brest, "there was an altercation between a customer who was not wearing a mask to enter a bar and one of the bar's security agents," said the police station. Brest police station.

The customer, who had been turned away at the entrance of the bar, then returned half an hour later with a knife. According to the Brest prosecutor's office, the man then attacks another guard and strikes him "several stab wounds, including one in the eye".

The security guard who had asked the man to leave the premises then comes to the aid of his colleague, as well as of the customers of the bar, specified the parquet floor and the police station.

"21 days of ITT"

Seriously injured in the eye, the security guard underwent surgery on Saturday morning. Its vital prognosis is not engaged. "He received 21 days of ITT and we hope that he will not lose his eye," said the duty magistrate of the Brest prosecutor's office.

"The attacker was alcoholic and was diagnosed with schizophrenia," added the Brest police.

According to the Brest prosecutor's office, which ordered psychiatric expertises, the defendant had already been sentenced by the courts for criminal acts.

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