It was a witness to the scene who called the emergency services and the police.
At around 7 a.m. on Wednesday, an altercation took place between two men near the Matabiau station in Toulouse.
On their arrival there, the police discovered a seriously injured man, who had received several stab wounds and whose vital prognosis was engaged.
The other had fled to a neighboring building.
It was there that the police discovered traces of blood on a door and glimpsed through an open window of an apartment, a man in a state of excitement.
The latter, who had probably drunk a lot, was arrested.
This forty-year-old was still in custody on Thursday.
As for the injured, his condition still critical, did not allow him to be heard according to a police source.
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