Overview
- In Paris, a 13-year-old riding a bike was approached by four people who stabbed him twice in the thigh near Place Alphonse-Allais.
- He fled to the nearby Ménilmontant metro station, and firefighters took him to Robert-Debré Hospital where his condition was described as stable.
- Prosecutors opened an inquiry for “violences avec arme en réunion sur mineur avec préméditation,” meaning a group armed assault on a minor with alleged planning, and assigned it to the 20th arrondissement police with no arrests reported.
- In Rouen, a 23-year-old was attacked by two men who stabbed him about fifteen times and tried to hood him and force him into a car before an intervening motorist drove them off.
- Rouen’s prosecutor, Sébastien Gallois, said the victim was hospitalized with arm and leg wounds and not in danger, and he assigned the case to the Direction de la criminalité territoriale, a regional unit for serious crime, as suspects in both cases remain at large.