New drama in a Lidl supermarket, a month after the attack on the chopper in Jeumont, in the North. A 24-year-old woman was stabbed while working in her store in Luc-en-Provence, in the Var this time. Hit by several stab wounds in the abdomen, the victim is from the neighboring village of Camps-la-Source, report our colleagues from Var Matin.
Taken care of by the firefighters and the Samu, Océane was evacuated in serious condition to the hospital of Sainte-Anne de Toulon, still according to our colleagues from the regional daily.
The alleged perpetrator of the stab wounds, “a young minor” unaccompanied according to the mayor of the town, was quickly brought under control by the police dispatched in large numbers to the scene. He was arrested by the police and taken into custody.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the facts would have taken place shortly before 3:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the supermarket, advance BFMTV. The possible motives for this act are unknown. The Draguignan prosecutor’s office announced, this Friday evening, to divest itself of the case in favor of the Toulon prosecutor’s office.
“In the wrong place at the wrong time”
The regional director of the company, Lahcene Lamaouche, would go there this evening. Contacted by Var Matin, he said he was “in shock”. “Océane was the victim of a heinous act, the act of an isolated person”, he is saddened, recalling that the young victim had been a versatile employee since May 2022.
He regrets that she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have a thought for the whole team of the Luc supermarket, we are united in the face of this heinous act. We are also thinking of her and her family. “On the facade of the establishment, the victim’s colleagues have also affixed a poster which soberly announces: “We inform our kind customers that our Lidl Le Luc supermarket will be exceptionally closed on Saturday January 7th as well as on Sunday January 8th. 2023”.
The mayor (DVD) of Luc, Dominique Lain, also visited the site. He wanted to support the store team, also marked by the violence of the attack. “This afternoon, I went to Lidl to show my full support for this young employee attacked with a knife, without apparent reason, by a young minor immediately apprehended”, he wrote on Twitter, while thanking the law enforcement.