According to the first elements of the investigation, the woman, in her forties, was attacked from behind. The attacker, currently unidentified, is on the run.
Published on 12/01/2025 11:58
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A 44-year-old woman was stabbed late Saturday morning in a park in Vergèze (Gard), we learned on Sunday January 12 “here Gard-Lozère” from a source close to the case, confirmed by Cécile Gensac, the prosecutor of Nîmes, who went to the site on Saturday afternoon where she held a press briefing. She indicated that she had opened an investigation for attempted intentional homicide.
The author of the stabbings is still on the run on Sunday, Franceinfo learned from the gendarmerie. Sixty gendarmes, a helicopter and a dog team were engaged on Saturday around the park – which was closed to access – to try to find the attacker. A device lifted on Sunday.
Two witnesses witnessed the scene which occurred around 11 a.m. Saturday morning, according to “ici Gard Lozère”. One of them tried to “to scare” to the aggressor; the other immediately called for help. Several of the victim’s children were at a nearby athletics track when she was attacked. Her husband came to collect them.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the victim was running when a man first punched him in the back. Blows that made her fall; Once on the ground, the attacker stabbed him in the back and throat. Seriously injured, her condition is now “stabilized”, announced Cécile Gensac on Sunday in a press release published on the social network X.
The police set up “a very big device” to find the individual, the magistrate indicated on Saturday. Sunday, in her press release, she specifies that the attacker is “unidentified” and that “the causes of the act are undetermined.”
The prosecutor co-seized the Gard gendarmerie group with the Vauvert research brigade as well as the research section (SR) of Nîmes as part of the flagrante delicacy investigation. She is also calling for witnesses. “Anyone with information that may be linked to the facts is invited to contact the operational center of the Gard gendarmerie on 04 66 38 50 00.”
