a young man in police custody after stabbing three people on New Year's Eve

An 18-year-old young man was taken into custody late Wednesday afternoon for “attempted homicide” in the Isola 2000 ski resort (Alpes-Maritimes) on the sidelines of the festive evening. New Year's Eve, said the Nice prosecutor's office. On the night of December 31 to 1^is January, three people were stabbed in circumstances that are still unclear. Two of them were seriously affected but their vital prognosis “is no longer engaged at this time”said the prosecutor.

“The wanted individual presented himself voluntarily to the gendarmerie” late Wednesday afternoon, he added in a press release. The alleged perpetrator of these stabbing attacks “has never been convicted and declares himself temporary”we learn about his profile.

Context to be clarified

According to initial evidence, this violent brawl broke out against a backdrop of excessive alcohol consumption while a dance evening is organized every year in this station in the Nice metropolis and brings together many vacationers. A neighborhood conflict, due to noise pollution, is also mentioned. “Investigations are continuing to clarify the context and motive of the facts”explained the Nice prosecutor's office, which entrusted the investigation to the Puget-Théniers gendarmerie brigade.

During this New Year's Eve in the Maralpin department, eight people were also arrested in the Ariane district, in Nice, after clashes with the police, mortar fire and arson of trash cans and vehicles.