A man wounds two tourists with a knife at the Christmas market

The facts occurred on Saturday around 9 p.m. in the heart of Strasbourg city center, in the heart of the Christmas market which had just closed its doors.

A couple of students who were visiting the Alsatian capital were robbed by a pickpocket in a restaurant in the city center, a police source told

, thus confirming information from the

.

The individual subtly stole two bags before discreetly taking the tangent.

The young couple managed to geolocate a mobile phone that was in the stolen bag and set off in pursuit of the thief whom they found and identified at Place Gutenberg, in the heart of Strasbourg's hypercentre.

Tourists end up in the emergency room

While they were trying to control him, the latter pulled out a knife "to free himself from the grip", details the police, and injured, with a gash in the face, the young tourist, then the back of the young woman's head.

A security guard then came to their aid before a BAC crew intervened and arrested the suspect.

Both victims were taken to the emergency department.

Several bank cards, telephones and other valuables were found on the young man arrested, specify our colleagues.

The latter presented himself as a minor, which “is not ultimately the case”, specifies the police.

He was finally indicted and imprisoned on Monday evening.

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