By Le Figaro with AFP
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updated at 12:02 p.m.
The 17-year-old young woman, out of school and unemployed, was named by witnesses as the perpetrator of the attack, according to the Vesoul prosecutor.
A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death during the night from Saturday to Sunday in Haute-Saône and a 17-year-old woman, suspected of having carried out the blow, was arrested, the prosecutor said on Monday. The minor as well as three young men, adults and present at the time of the events, were placed in police custody, told AFP the public prosecutor of Vesoul, Arnaud Grécourt, confirming information from the daily L'Est Républicain. The 17-year-old young woman, out of school and unemployed, was named by witnesses as the perpetrator, he said.
“A stab in the chest”
An altercation between two people broke out during the night from Saturday to Sunday after an evening in an apartment in Luxeuil-les-Bains, in which four men and a woman took part, who were consuming drugs and alcohol. alcohol. During this altercation, “the 22-year-old young man tried to intervene and received a single stab wound to the chest”detailed Arnaud Grécourt.
Witnesses called emergency services, but the young man died on the spot and all participants in the evening were taken into police custody. The young woman could be presented to an investigating judge at the end of her custody, while the three men should be released, according to the prosecutor. The Vesoul public prosecutor's office plans to open a judicial investigation for murder on Monday and to relinquish responsibility for the benefit of the criminal investigation center in Besançon.