Last Saturday, a forty-year-old woman was attacked with a knife while running in a park in Vergèze, near Nîmes.
A week after the violent knife attack on a jogger in Vergèze, in the Gard, a man was arrested, indicates the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, at Figaroconfirming the information ofObjective Gard .
Last Saturday, a 44-year-old woman was attacked with a knife while she was running in a park in Vergèze, located near Nîmes. He had surprised her from behind and injured her several times. After being taken care of by passers-by, the victim was rushed to hospital and his condition stabilized. In order to identify the attacker, the prosecution launched a call for witnesses.
An investigation for “attempted murder”
It is currently unknown whether it was this call for witnesses that led to the arrest of a 25-year-old suspect on Friday. The public prosecutor confirms that an individual is currently in police custody. In a press release, the magistrate specifies that it is “domiciled in the environment of the place where the facts were committed.»
-An investigation was opened to “attempted murder» and entrusted to the research section of the Nîmes gendarmerie, “with the assistance of the Vauvert research brigade and the entire Gard departmental group».
