Attempted murder in Cannes: suspect in custody after knife fight amid love rivalry

Attempted murder. This is the charge that led to the suspect arrested Thursday morning in Cannes being placed in pre-trial detention after a knife fight that left one person seriously injured .

The 19-year-old man was still at 66 Boulevard Carnot when emergency services and police responded to another boy of the same age, who was lying on the ground in a pool of blood after being stabbed several times.

Against a backdrop of "love rivalry"?

According to preliminary investigation findings, the brawl may have started in a Cannes nightclub a few hours earlier, amid a "romantic" rivalry between young people of Cape Verdean origin. A meeting was reportedly arranged in the lobby of the building (where the victim was staying on Airbnb) to "explain things," before the confrontation escalated into violence.

According to our information, suffering from seven stab wounds, the injured person was hospitalized and operated on , with an initial prescription for ITT (temporary work interruption) exceeding eight days, but his life is no longer in danger.

It remains to be seen whether the "official" version of events is confirmed or denied, once the investigators have been able to hear them all...