A suspect was in police custody this Saturday after the fatal knife attack on a man in the middle of the street on Friday evening in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne), said the Créteil prosecution, requested by the AFP and confirming information from
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Main suspect arrested
The victim was seriously injured by a knife, around 8 p.m., and his vital prognosis was engaged, a police source told AFP.
He was later pronounced dead.
The arrested suspect was "obviously in a state of alcoholism", probably homeless and with "a potential psychiatric problem", detailed a source close to the file to AFP.
Video circulating on social media shows stunned bystanders milling around a stain and splattering blood on the sidewalk next to abandoned personal belongings.
A flagrant investigation of the head of voluntary homicide was opened by the parquet floor of Créteil, said the latter.
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