13h35: The main suspect, aged 16, was arrested at his home and placed in police custody, a police source told AFP. An ax was found and seized during the search.
1:29 p.m.: Update on what we know
Four people were injured during an ax brawl on Monday in the RER E at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station (Seine-et-Marne), which led to an arrest, we learned from police sources. Around 8:00 a.m., in the RER E, a fight involving several people, including minors, broke out for a reason still unknown.
According to a police source, the four victims – minors aged 16 and 17 – were attacked on their way to high school. They were transported to hospital for treatment, added this source, specifying that their vital prognosis was not in jeopardy. One of the victims had his hand cut off and another had his head cut open with an axe, the same source added. Two others were more lightly injured.
The main suspect, aged 16, was arrested at his home and placed in police custody, a police source told AFP. An ax was found and seized during the search. The fight took place while the train was at the platform, so that “neither RER E traffic nor that of the station was impacted”, the SNCF was told.
The perpetrators used several bladed weapons: knife, axe, katana and baseball bats. The investigation, opened for intentional violence in meetings, was entrusted to the Torcy central police station.
11:12 a.m.: Images of the violent ax attack this morning are published on social networks. Four people were injured, two of them seriously, with an ax on Monday in a public transport station in the Paris region, we learned from a police source.
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09:48: Update on what we know
Four people were injured, two of them seriously, with an ax on Monday in a public transport station in the Paris region, we learned from a police source.
Around 8:00 a.m. local time, in the Ozoir-la-Ferrière station, about thirty kilometers east of Paris, a fight broke out involving several people for a reason still unknown. One of the victims had his hand cut off and another had his head cut open with an axe, the same source added. Two others were more lightly injured.
The fight took place while the train was at the platform. Traffic on this “E” line of the regional express network (RER) was not disrupted, the National Railway Company stressed.
09h30: Four people were injured, including two seriously with axes, on Monday in the RER E at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station (Seine-et-Marne), according to a police source cited by AFP. Around 8 a.m., in the RER E, a fight broke out involving several people for a reason still unknown. One of the victims had his hand cut off and another had his head cut open with an axe, the same source added. Two others were more lightly injured. The police and firefighters are on site, according to RER E account
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09:23: AFP confirms the information
09:18 a.m.: A fight took place in transport in the Paris region on the RER E at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station. Four people were injured with axes, two of them seriously. The police and firefighters are on site, according to account X of the RER E. (Le Figaro and Valeurs Actuelles)
