Fatal Stabbing in Squatted Nice Hotel: 25-Year-Old Killed, Suspect at Large

The events took place at 10 Rue du Rocher in the old "Hôtel Gambetta" establishment, which is no longer open to the public but is squatted by homeless people. An as yet unidentified individual stabbed Wadie to death during the night on Saturday, reports Nice-matin. The victim was wounded in the abdomen, chest and back.

"I heard a dispute around four in the morning. Really a violent altercation. [...] I saw a man climb over the gate, as if he had been knocked out as if he had taken blows and was disoriented," says a local resident. The individual flees. In the process, he stumbles and hits his head against a car, staining it with blood.

Shortly after, this inhabitant of Rue du Rocher recounts having heard a man cry: "call the Samu, call the Samu. I’m going to die, I’m going to die". This man is Wadie. Wounded by a knife, he was trying to climb the wall surrounding the former Hôtel Gambetta garden. "After calling the police and the fire department, I went to see him. I stayed with him until the rescue arrived, I told him to hold on. [...] After they told me he was dead," she continues.

Investigators are actively searching for the fugitive who may be the victim or the alleged aggressor. They also suspect the involvement of a third person in this violent dispute. They found a trace of a bloody hand on the left wall of the hotel. On Sunday, the public prosecutor favored the hypothesis of a dispute that degenerated among the homeless.