a 53-year-old woman severely beaten in the street, the suspect in his twenties in police custody

A 53-year-old woman was beaten up in the street in Nice, shortly after 3 a.m. on the night of Monday September 11 to Tuesday September 12, France Télévisions learned from a police source, confirming information from BFM Nice Côte d’Azur . The attack took place “at the intersection of rue d’Italie and rue Durante”in the city center, according to a press release from the Nice judicial court.

On the video surveillance images, we see a young man making the victim fall to the ground “for no apparent reason” and jump on his head. She was hospitalized in a “very serious condition”, specifies the press release and his vital prognosis is still engaged.

The anti-crime squad intervened and arrested the suspect, aged around twenty, a little further away. He was taken into police custody and proceedings were opened to “attempted homicide”. The investigation was entrusted to the brigade of safety departmental. His identity has not yet been formally established and “no antecedent has been highlighted”adds the press release from the prosecution.