A 24-year-old Syrian man with a heavy psychiatric history stabbed his 57-year-old father to death overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Metz, we learned from concordant sources.

"A young man killed his father with a knife, in a rather heavy psychiatric context", indicated to AFP the prefecture of Moselle, evoking "an intra-family drama".

The facts took place in the Borny district east of Metz where this family of Syrian origin lives, shortly before 4 a.m.

The author of the stab wounds would then have been subdued by his brothers, indicates a police source.

The five brothers and sisters were taken care of in relative emergency by the firefighters for gashes.

Known and monitored for schizophrenia, the alleged perpetrator was placed in police custody.

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