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Paris couple found in flat with throats slit

A woman, who was reportedly pregnant, was found dead with her throat slit in a Paris apartment on Friday while her partner was left in a critical condition. An electric sander was found running beside their bodies.

Published: 22 May 2015 11:46 CEST
Paris couple found in flat with throats slit
Photo: AFP
The police made the horrific find in an apartment on Rue de Bua in the 20th arrondissement, eastern Paris, on Friday morning.
 
The woman was several months pregnant, according to numerous reports in the French media. She had lacerations all over her body.
 
The man, believed to be her partner had also had his throat cut but survived. He was also wounded in the stomach.
 
He was said to be in a critical condition and had to be taken out of the building by firefighters via the window of the apartment on a stretcher and using harnesses. 
 
According to Le Parisien an electric sander was found in the apartment close to the bodies.
 
It remains unclear if there were other people involved in the gruesome incident, but reports suggest there was a history of domestic violence in the couple.
 
 
 
 
 

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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