Eleven people were injured when they jumped out of a second-story window near Paris early Saturday, thinking a naked man tending his crying baby in the night was the devil, the local prosecutor said.
“Thirteen people were in an apartment on the second floor when at around 3am, one of the occupants heard his child crying,” the deputy prosecutor in Versailles, Odile Faivre, told AFP.
“The man in question of African origin, who was completely naked, got up to feed his child, at which point the other occupants took him for the devil,” said Faivre.
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“He was seriously wounded in the hand after being stabbed with a knife before he was thrown out of the apartment, via the door.”
The naked man then tried to get back into the flat in the town of La Verriere west of Paris, with a population of 6,000.
“That’s when the other occupants tried to escape by jumping out of the window, panicked by a fear of the devil,” said Faivre.
Police have questioned the would-be devil, aged 30, and another man who jumped from the window with a two-year-old girl in his arms.
Seven of those injured were taken to hospital for emergency treatment.
Investigators are trying to clarify a number of issues surrounding the case, including whether everyone jumped voluntarily or if some were forced to do so, Faivre said.(AFP)
法國巴黎檢察官表示,十一人上週六清晨於燈光灰暗的室內,驚見一位赤裸男子照顧哇哇大哭的嬰兒,當下以為是魔鬼而紛紛從二樓窗戶跳下摔傷。
凡爾賽區副檢察官歐蒂兒‧費芙告訴法新社,「當時是清晨三點左右。公寓二樓有十三人,當中一位聽到孩子哭鬧的聲音。」
費芙表示,「那位全身赤裸的非洲裔男子起床餵食孩子,此時其他住戶誤以為他是惡魔。」
「該男子被扔出公寓門口前,遭其他人以刀刃攻擊,手部嚴重受傷。」
當時這位住在巴黎西部,人口大約六千人拉維瑞爾市的赤裸男子企圖回到公寓裡。
費芙說,「此時其他住戶因懼怕魔鬼而驚慌失措,一個接一個往窗外跳。」
警方盤問了這位被當成魔鬼的三十歲男子,以及另一位雙手抱著兩歲女兒跳窗的另一位男子。
傷者中有七位緊急送往醫院治療。
費芙說,調查人員正了解此案相關的細節,是否所有人均自願跳窗,或者是在他人迫使下所為。
(法新社/翻譯:吳岱璟)
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