Illustration of a night police car, here in Rennes. - C. Allain / 20 Minutes

An alcoholic evening degenerated into the night from Sunday to Monday in Lorient, we learned from the prosecution. It was residents who raised the alert after hearing cries and calls for help. When they arrived, the police observed a large amount of blood and discovered a 49-year-old man who declared that he "killed" someone.

The victim, who was next to him, is a 41-year-old man. Seriously injured, with a large sore in the throat, he was taken care of, at the Scorff hospital center in Lorient where he was operated. "Admitted to intensive care, his vital prognosis was no longer engaged", specifies Stéphane Kellenberger, public prosecutor of Lorient. Another male witness was slightly injured.

Judicial information open for attempted murder

Highly alcoholic, the accused was placed in police custody. Before the investigators, he would have explained that the evening "would have gone bad due to excessive consumption of alcohol" and that an altercation would have broken out "for an apparently futile reason" before he used a knife .

An investigation into an attempted murder and intentional violence with a weapon and by a person in a state of drunkenness was opened and entrusted to the central police station in Lorient. "The investigations are obviously still underway and judicial information should be opened today," said the prosecutor.

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