The unfolding of the facts is still very vague, but it still led the Toulouse public prosecutor's office to open an blatant investigation for “violence” and “acts of torture and barbarity”, he informed Le Parisien.
Six people were taken into police custody after violence that occurred on Wednesday, November 13, in an apartment in Tournefeuille, a town located a few kilometers from Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), during which one person was injured with a weapon. white, the city's prosecutor's office informed Le Parisien, confirming information from La Dépêche.
Wednesday evening, the police received a call from a woman, who alerted them to “a fight between five people” in a building in the city, according to a police source. Arriving on site, the police heard “screams and cries for help” coming from an apartment on the ground floor.
The rest of the events are still unclear but, according to a police source, the tenant of the accommodation, a man who lives with his wife and daughter-in-law, was awakened “by the sound of a struggle”. In the next room, he discovers one of his friends, whom he is currently staying with, and two men who “came to assault” the latter, according to his account. To defend himself, his friend threw a glass bottle and a hammer at his two attackers, before heating water and spraying one of the two individuals, the tenant explained to investigators.
The main tenant of the accommodation was awakened by the sound of a struggle between a friend he was staying with and two other people who had come to attack him. “To defend himself”, the victim threw a glass bottle and hammer at his attackers, before heating water and dousing one of the perpetrators. The two men, who fled in a vehicle just before the arrival of the police, were intercepted a few meters further. Injured, they were transported to Purpan hospital in Toulouse.
But, before the investigators, the latter two told a different version. They claim to have been tied up and held captive for several hours in the apartment by the tenant and his friend. One of the two claims to have been burned with hot oil, assaulted and stabbed in the legs, while the other explains having been beaten. To shed light on what happened, the six people – the four occupants of the accommodation and the two injured – were placed in police custody. “The investigation is only just beginning,” said the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office, who did not wish to give further details.
