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A woman was held against her will by a man in a private parking lot in Nice. The municipal police managed to free the woman. The man ended his life.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday evening, a woman witnessed a violent altercation between a man and a woman in Nice. She triggers a municipal police emergency call point. When the police arrived on Boulevard François-Grosso, she told them that the man and woman had gone into a private parking lot.
The police went there and heard the woman screaming. The violent altercation continued and the man, who was armed, held the woman back. The police managed to exfiltrate the victim. And the man ended his life.
The woman was treated by a psychologist. The profiles of the man and woman have not been disclosed, nor the reason for their altercation. An investigation was opened by the Nice prosecutor's office, specifies Nice Morning.
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, praises the “professionalism and composure” of his municipal police on the social network He will receive the municipal police officers who intervened at the town hall at the end of the morning.
Notre @pmdenice shines again this evening with his professionalism and his composure. Alerted by the triggering of an emergency call point signaling the presence of an armed individual in a private parking lot, the courage of our agents made it possible to secure a…
— Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) https://twitter.com/cestrosi/status/1858230241749053493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The city of Nice is equipped with 265 emergency call terminals. Installed from 2019 in front of schools, tram stations, at the train station, near places of worship or on the Promenade des Anglais, they make it possible to alert the municipal police for rapid intervention. The terminals are fixed on large gray posts topped with the words SOS. They were triggered 5,400 times in 2023.
