27-year-old French tourist stabbed in the throat in Harlem

“I am in shock”. This is what a young French tourist, aged 27, said after being violently stabbed “in the throat in the middle of the street in New York. The attack took place this Friday, February 14 at the end of the morning in the Harlem district.

As reported West France, the young man, originally from Reunion, but living in Paris, was leaving a restaurant accompanied by his girlfriend when a stranger, armed with a knife, stabbed at the throat. “I didn’t see it coming. The man gave me a very hard blow in the face. At first, I thought it was just a punch and then I felt the blood, “says the injured young French tourist.

Faced with the speed of the attack, he did not have time to react. The motive for the assault is currently unknown since his assailant did not steal anything from him and immediately fled after stabbing him.

A free shot of absolute violence

French tourist in Ouest-France.

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The young man speaks on social networks of “a free shot of absolute violence “, on social networks. On a broadcast video by the local daily New York Post, the victim can be seen kneeling on the sidewalk as passers-by attempt to contain the bleeding in his neck.

Hospitalized, the 27-year-old had to be operated on and had a tracheotomy currently preventing him from speaking. The perpetrator appears on surveillance cameras is wanted by New York police.