French tourist receives numerous stab wounds in Rio de Janeiro

Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, October 1, 2020. -

Despite the violence of the acts committed against a French citizen, "his vital prognosis is not engaged".

A steward of the Air France airline who came on vacation to Brazil was hospitalized in serious condition on Saturday, after being stabbed in Rio de Janeiro, we learned from a French consular source.

Affected "in the cervical area"

The victim, originally from Châlons-en-Champagne, in the Marne, received numerous stab wounds, in particular "in the cervical area".

The Rio Municipality Health Secretariat said he had undergone several operations and was still in intensive care, even though his state of health was "stable" on Saturday evening.

The 55-year-old man was stabbed Tuesday in the tourist district of Ipanema, said local police, who announced that they arrested a suspect on Saturday in Sao Joao de Meriti, a northern suburb of Rio.

According to the local newspaper

, this suspect would have known the steward on a dating app and they would have ended up in an apartment.

The newspaper reports that the assailant fled after stabbing him.

The Frenchman then left the apartment, bleeding, before being rescued by neighbors.

Violence on the rise

Despite the coronavirus pandemic and relative confinement, the figures recorded by the NGO Forum de Sécurité Publique show that violence is not declining in Brazil.

The number of homicides there increased by 7.1% in the first half of 2020, compared to the first six months of last year.

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