Violent attack in Bordeaux, France, earlier today. The perpetrator was known to police and arrested.

 

An elderly woman and her granddaughter violently attacked in Bordeaux 

A septuagenarian and her granddaughter were victims of an attack on Monday June 19 “of rare violence” in Bordeaux, the prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde said on Twitter, adding that a suspect has been taken into custody.

The facts happened “at the end of the afternoon” in the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, “course of Martinique”at the home of the 73-year-old person accompanied by her “little girl”a minor child “under 15”, said the prefect. The septuagenarian was hospitalized but “her vital prognosis is not engaged”says the same source.