Four people were arrested on the night of Friday to Saturday, September 7, suspected of having participated in the attack on a couple in Paris. An investigation has been opened for “intentional violence committed using a bladed weapon because of the sexual orientation of the victims.”
A man and his partner were attacked and one of them was seriously injured in the head on the night of Friday to Saturday, September 7 in Paris, in what the victims denounce as a homophobic attack. Four people suspected of having participated in this violence were arrested shortly after the events. Under the influence of alcohol, they were placed in deferred police custody.
It is around one o’clock in the morning when the police are called for a “brawl” between “about ten” of people on the Canal Saint-Martin, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, a police source explained. On site, emergency services treated a man injured in the head after a “bottle shard blow”The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, she continued.
Another man came forward to the police, explaining that he was the partner of the injured man and that they had been attacked by eight people because of their sexual orientation. Having “arm dermabrasions” (skin lesions), the man was also taken to hospital for treatment.
At 1:45 a.m., the police arrested four people not far from the scene of the attack. They were “recognized by a witness”the source added. An investigation has been opened for “intentional violence committed using a bladed weapon because of the sexual orientation of the victims.”
