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Dead French tourist was depressed: family

UPDATED: The family of a French 19-year-old girl found dead in a Barcelona hotel room on Sunday with knife wounds had reported the young woman missing, telling police she was depressed and displaying suicidal tendencies, Spanish media are reporting.

Published: 17 November 2014 17:05 CET
Dead French tourist was depressed: family
The dead woman was found in the Olivia Plaza hotel in Barcelona's central Plaça Catalunya. Photo: Josep Lago/AFP

The family told police the young woman had most likely been travelling with her French boyfriend, identified only as A. J. P. R. G. by Catalan daily La Vanguardia. 

The family of the boyfriend also reported him as missing, while noting the girl's fragile psychological state, the daily added.  

The boyfriend is currently being sought by French police after staff at the Olivia Plaza hotel in Barcelona's central Plaça Catalunya discovered the body of the young woman after entering the room at 12.30pm on Sunday.

The body reportedly showed signs of knife wounds and police said that they hope the missing man will be able to explain what had happened.

The knife used to inflict the injuries was found in the room and police are now studying hotel surveillance video as investigations continue.

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One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday.

Published: 4 May 2024 10:05 CEST
One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm (2145 GMT) Friday, prosecutors said.

Upon arriving on the scene, police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One died soon after and the three others were taken to hospitals in a serious condition, a police source said.

Three more people injured by bullets were later taken to hospital, the source said, adding that two men had arrived in the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.

The attackers then fled.

Sevran mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP “it was clearly a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.”

“There is a need to establish order and eradicate trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed appeals for calm”.

Police have opened an investigation into intentional homicide by an organised gang, they said. No arrests had been by Saturday morning.

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