The man suspected of having stabbed a man during the evening of Saturday January 4 in a hotel in the town of Ligny-en-Barrois, in the Meuse, was placed in pre-trial detention this Monday afternoon.
At the end of his police custody which had been extended on Sunday evening before being lifted at the end of the morning, the individual, aged around forty and only known to the justice system, until now, for traffic offenses, was referred to the Nancy public prosecutor's office.
The public prosecutor of Nancy, François Capin-Dulhoste, confirmed yesterday evening that “information was opened with one of the judges of the Nancy investigation center”, who indicted the suspect “of the leader of attempted assassination.
The latter was then taken before the judge of freedoms and detention who ordered his placement in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor.
In the presence of a child
The suspect, armed with a knife, drunk and under the influence of hard drugs, went on Saturday evening to a hotel in the locality where his ex-spouse and her new companion were staying, in the presence of of a child of the couple aged 5 years. In circumstances that the investigation will be responsible for shedding light on, he allegedly hit his victim several times before fleeing, returning to his home and finally surrendering shortly after to the police.
He was taken into custody at 9:30 p.m. The gendarmes then searched his accommodation, finding the incriminated knife. If the victim's vital prognosis was compromised for a while, she now seems out of the woods after being taken into care in a hospital in Nancy.
The suspect, for his part, faces life imprisonment.
