“Machete attack in the Lidl of Jeumont, in France”, we are written via the orange Alert us button. Four people were actually injured on Monday evening with knives, two of them seriously, in a Lidl store in Jeumont, in the north of France, by a man equipped in particular with a chopper, who then tried to put an end to his days, we learned from police sources.
The vital prognosis of the two seriously injured is not engaged, unlike that of the author, who attempted suicide, said a police source.
Two other people were injured more lightly, the source continued.
The facts took place around 7:00 p.m. when the man entered the store equipped in particular “of a chopper” before attacking customers. About ten people were there.
According to a source close to the case, the attacker was equipped with two knives and a chopper.
“No element currently allows to make any hypothesis about the motivation of the aggressor”who has “not been identified”, said the police source.
Aged about forty, this man had no papers on him, said a second police source, according to which the author tried to end his life by injuring his throat with his knife.