Illustration of a policeman in Lyon - Caroline Girardon

The facts took place in broad daylight at an hour when the streets of the district are still busy. Tuesday, around 7:30 p.m., a 29-year-old man was seriously injured during a brawl between a dozen people at Place Valmy, in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon.

According to Le Progrès, in the fight, probably linked to a debt, the victim was stabbed in the chest and the throat. He had lost a lot of blood when the firefighters, alerted by passers-by who attended the scene, dumbfounded, arrived.

Two arrests

He was hospitalized in serious condition. In the aftermath of the events, two men, 27 and 39 years old, including the alleged stabbers, were arrested and placed in police custody while municipal and national police personnel were mobilized in the neighborhood to maintain calm.

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