A 25-year-old woman was the victim of an extremely violent attack on Sunday November 17 in Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne). Found seriously injured on the public highway, rue Jacques-Prévert, around 7 a.m., she was treated by emergency services and transported to hospital.
In a press release this Tuesday, the public prosecutor in Châlons-en-Champagne, Annick Browne, specified: “The victim had several deep wounds on the face and scalp, facial fractures as well as several finger fractures and defensive wounds, particularly on one of the hands. This resulted in permanent disability with irreversible loss. of the function of one of his eyes and the amputation of a phalanx”. The forensic doctor confirmed the seriousness of the injuries, indicating that the victim had suffered serious mutilations.
The police quickly focused their investigation on the presence of a white van, reported at the scene of the attack. This vehicle was found submerged in a side canal of the Marne, approximately two kilometers from the scene, around 10:30 a.m. Shortly after, the owner of the van, a 52-year-old man, came to the police station to report the theft of his vehicle. As Annick Browne stated, “he was intoxicated, and his explanations about the circumstances of the theft of this van were confused”.
Placed in police custody, the man ended up admitting the facts during his presentation before the investigating magistrate. A criminal judicial investigation was opened for violence resulting in mutilation or permanent disability, with the aggravating circumstance of the use or threat of a weapon.
Already convicted four times in the past
The suspect, originally from Châlons-en-Champagne, is already known to the courts. His criminal record shows four convictions, mainly for driving under the influence of alcohol. Moreover, “he was implicated in 2010 for acts of rape, proceedings dismissed for insufficiently characterized offense”specified the magistrate.
The suspect was presented in the afternoon to a judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), who placed him in pre-trial detention. The investigation, entrusted to the interregional judicial police service (SIPJ) of Reims, continues.
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