The 22-year-old man was in serious danger when he was treated by emergency services. A witness to the scene recounts what he saw to BFM Lyon.
It is around 1:30 p.m. this Thursday, December 12. In the Part-Dieu district of Lyon, an altercation broke out between a cyclist and a scooter user. The first, aged 22, suffered a stab wound to the chest, consistent sources report to our editorial staff, confirming information from Actu Lyon.
Seriously affected, the victim presented a vital prognosis at the time of his treatment by emergency services.
Questioned by BFM Lyon, a witness to the scene recounts. “We were on break during work. What we saw was two people arriving in front of the pedestrian crossing,” he rewinds. “A person on a scooter was caught by a person behind them. The person behind them had a concrete block in their hand, they started to hit them on the arm, on the back, wanted to aim for the head.”
“Separated by passers-by”
According to our witness, the man hit by the blows from the concrete block tried to flee. “The person who was hitting didn’t stop, hit her continuously.
It was then, according to the young man, that “people started to intervene”. “We noticed that the person who hit with the concrete block had a large trace of blood on their back.” Ultimately, the two individuals involved in the altercation “were separated by passers-by.”
The police intervened within minutes. “Apparently, there was a stab wound. So we say to ourselves that he must have been stabbed,” imagines the witness, still in disbelief after witnessing the scene: “It’s weird to see someone hitting another person with a cinder block.”
The interdepartmental direction of the Rhône national police (DIPN 69) tells BFM Lyon “that an investigation is underway to find out the circumstances of the accident”.
Léane Delabrière and Florian Bouhot
