A 25-year-old man was arrested and placed in police custody on Friday evening in Nîmes as part of the investigation into the attack on a jogger, seriously injured by several stab wounds in a park in Gard, a t -we learned on Saturday from judicial sources close to the case.
“The investigations carried out by the Nîmes Research Section, with the support of the gendarmes of the Gard departmental gendarmerie group, led on Friday January 17, 2025 in the evening to the placement in police custody of an individual,” indicated the prosecutor. of the Republic of Nîmes in a press release. “This is a 25-year-old man, residing in the area where the facts were committed,” said the prosecutor, Cécile Gensac.
The victim, a 44-year-old woman who was running on Saturday January 11 late in the morning in a health park in Vergèze, in the Gard, was struck from behind with several stab wounds. His vital prognosis was in jeopardy for a long time before his state of health stabilized.
-The day after the attack, the Nîmes prosecutor launched a call for witnesses, specifying that a flagrant investigation into attempted homicide had been opened. Large numbers of gendarmes were deployed on January 11 and 12 around Vergèze, with 70 gendarmes, supported by aerial means, drones and helicopters, as well as dog teams.
The investigation was entrusted to the research section of the Nîmes gendarmerie, with the research brigade of the Vauvert gendarmerie company and all the staff of the Gard departmental gendarmerie group.
