Annoyed by the crying of a six-month-old infant: a man attacks the child's mother and another passenger in a TER with a knife

Un TER en gare de Mulhouse. (illustration) MAXPPP – Vincent VOEGTLIN

Ce mardi 5 mars 2024, un homme suspecté d'avoir agressé une femme au couteau, parce que son enfant pleurait dans un train, a été interpellé à Mulhouse en Alsace.

The events took place this Tuesday, on board a TER which was traveling from Strasbourg to Basel (Swiss city). A man in his fifties allegedly attacked a woman with a knife who had a crying six-month-old child in her arms. The assailant was arrested at Mulhouse station, reports France Bleu Alsace.

Several stab wounds

While the mother was holding her infant in her arms, the fifty-year-old came to meet her to ask her that the child stop moaning. The man threatens the woman with death and accompanies his words with insults before returning to his place. Arriving at the station, the individual returns and takes out a knife and strikes several times. Luckily, the victim manages to protect the little six who escapes without any injury. She is hit in the hands.

Another TER passenger tries to intervene but receives several stab wounds. He was hit in the cheeks and head, specifies France Bleu. The attacker fled after leaving the train. The police are on his trail and patrol the area of ​​the Mulhouse station, in Haut-Rhin. But the hunt was only short-lived, since he was arrested half an hour later, under the terrace of a pavilion, then placed in police custody.

The victims were taken care of by the SNCF teams then transferred to the hospital in the Alsatian town for "wounds more or less less important", explain our colleagues.

An investigation was opened against the suspect for  attempted murder aggravated due to the blood alcohol level of the man who claims to be of Palestinian nationality,  at the time of the facts, indicates Le Parisien. He will be referred to the Mulhouse public prosecutor's office this Thursday and will be tried in immediate appearance.