Three young men were injured with stabbing, Saturday August 16 at the end of the afternoon in the center of Toulouse. Found a few hundred meters from each other, they were hospitalized.
Shortly before 3 p.m., passers -by saw a young man collapse on the sidewalk, a stone’s throw from a Kebab restaurant on Boulevard de Strasbourg. Lying on the ground, he was bleeding abundantly. This Saturday, the municipal police, first on the spot, noted two deep wounds: one at the neck, the other on the left side. Aware despite his injuries, the man, in his twenties, received first aid pending the arrival of the firefighters.
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Almost at the same time, a second victim was reported to Place Saint-Sernin, at the corner of rue Saint-Bernard. She was a stab on the back. Again, a municipal police crew supported by the anti -crime brigade (BAC) secured the area and rescue. Another victim was also found in the vicinity.
Weapons abandoned on the spot
The rapid observations made it possible to discover several knives: two throws in a trash can near the first injured and a third abandoned near the second victim. Clues that suggest a confrontation with reciprocal violence.
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The three men were taken care of by the emergency services and transported to different hospitals. Two of the victims were between life and death.
The Toulouse prosecutor’s office is expected to invest in the organized and specialized crime division, in order to determine the exact circumstances of the brawl and to identify possible accomplices.
The statements of the technicians of the scientific police and the analysis of video surveillance images should make it possible to specify the contours of this raging of violence.