The victim, a 44-year-old woman, was transported to the Carémeau University Hospital in Nîmes. His vital diagnosis is underway.
It was a scene of fear that affected the town of Vergèze this Saturday, January 11. Around 11 a.m., a 44-year-old woman living in Aigues-Vives went for a run at the town’s health trail. This is where she was allegedly attacked. According to our information, she received several stab wounds to the back and throat. Supported by emergency services, she was transported to the Carémeau University Hospital in Nîmes. His vital diagnosis is underway.
The sector is blocked, the attacker actively sought
It was a plainclothes gendarme who alerted his colleagues to this attack. Currently, more than sixty gendarmes from throughout the Gard department are mobilized as well as helicopters. Pascale Fortunat-Deschamps, mayor of Vergèze, informs on her social networks that the area is blocked to allow the gendarmes to carry out searches to find the attacker.
In 2016, another jogger was attacked and raped
This tragic event brought back very painful memories in the memory of the Vergézois: in March 2016, another jogger and mother was hit with a bottle while she was training on the course. The perpetrator, a 15-year-old teenager, armed with a knife, then raped her. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
But, a few years later, in 2021, this same individual, then aged 22, was arrested again, this time for attempted murder of his partner, in Nîmes.
Within the commune of Vergèze, which has less than 6,000 inhabitants, reactions were strong and there was fear: the equestrian center thus encouraged all of its practitioners not to come on foot and to be convey.
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