"It's a banal cigarette story gone bad," after a teenager inside the restaurant refused to give cigarettes to a group of people.

The teenager fled to his home and his mother came out to meet the four people who threatened her son.

This woman in her thirties was then stabbed and died.

A brawl caused by a refused cigarette broke out on Sunday evening in Saint-Vallier (Drôme), resulting in the stabbing death of a mother of a family and leaving six injured, we learned Monday from the prefecture.

The facts occurred around 8:15 p.m. in a MacDonald restaurant in this town in the Rhône valley.

Mother stabbed for defending her son

"It's a banal story of cigarettes gone badly", after the refusal by a teenager of Romanian origin who was inside the restaurant to give cigarettes to people of North African origin, according to the same source.

The teenager fled to his home and his mother came out to meet the four people who threatened her son.

This woman in her thirties was then stabbed.

Family members tried to transport her to the emergency room in a vehicle but her state of health deteriorated, they called for help who pronounced her dead on the spot.

Four people in "absolute urgency"

Two other people were affected "quite seriously but, a priori, their days would not be in danger", one added to the prefecture at the beginning of the morning before specifying later that the toll of the brawl reported four people in "absolute urgency" and two in "relative urgency".

One of the alleged perpetrators of the brawl was in police custody, while another was hospitalized, the same source said.