A French tourist sustained a serious neck injury in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Friday. On a broadcast video by the local daily New York Post, the victim can be seen kneeling on the sidewalk as passers-by try to contain the bleeding in his neck.
The man was assaulted for no reason, according to New York police. The suspect would have chosen his victim completely at random. Rescue workers transported the victim to Harlem hospital, where he was admitted in critical but stable condition.
A local shopkeeper testified to the “New York Post”: “One of my clients came to see me to ask if I spoke French. He told me that someone had been cut at the neck but that the victim did not speak English ”.
A random attack
A witness to the assault described the scene: “A man and a woman were walking down the street and there was this guy walking next to them. The attacker turned to the victim, looked him in the eye and took out what looked like a cutter before cutting him in the neck, ”he explained. “He didn’t know him. He even looked surprised, ”he added.
According to police sources, the tourist and her friend had just left a cafe specializing in breakfast on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, west of 135th Street, when the “unprovoked attack” took place. “. Police searched the neighborhood for a suspect dressed in black but still had not found him by Friday evening.
The French tourist communicated on his condition on social networks. Photographer by profession, he gave news to his relatives on Instagram. He had to undergo a tracheostomy, and can no longer speak temporarily, but his life is not in danger.
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