A Braila man who was slashed with a machete in the middle of the street on Saturday night and had his fingers amputated by doctors to save his life was stopped by police hours before the attack and found with drugs and a knife in his car.

According to a press release sent on Wednesday by the Braila police and quoted by Agerpres, the 33-year-old man was stopped by the police on Saturday at 19:30 and the attack happened a few hours later, around 23:15 At the time he was stopped by the police, his were accompanied by two people who were found with drugs and a knife.

• “On April 29 of this year at 7:30 p.m., police officers of the Braila Municipal Police and the Department of Public Order stopped a car driven by a 33-year-old Braila resident on Maramures Street in Braila Municipality. the same one who would be the victim of an assassination attempt less than 4 hours later.
• During the check conducted by the police, a knife was found and seized in the purse of a 22-year-old young woman, a passenger in the car. On this fact, criminal proceedings have been opened on the fact of unauthorized carrying or use of dangerous objects.
• In addition, an 18-year-old youth from Brăila, also a passenger in the car driven by a 33-year-old man, was found with a self-sealing plastic envelope with fragments of plants and seized for further investigation,” he mentioned to IPJ Brăila in a statement sent on Wednesday .

VIDEO The moment of the attack in the middle of the street in Breil

A 33-year-old man was attacked by several hooded men armed with machetes on Dorobantilor Boulevard in Brail, a criminal case for attempted murder was opened and investigators gathered images from several surveillance cameras in the area.

He suffered multiple stab wounds, tibial fractures and a brain injury with intracranial hemorrhage, so doctors had to amputate his fingers and transfer the man to Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest.

The man who was attacked must have been a member of a criminal gang, he was a repeat offender, and it would be about settling scores. According to debrăila.ro, only a month ago he was allegedly involved in a violent conflict that broke out at a gas station.

Surveillance cameras in the area captured the attack on Saturday night, and the images show four hooded men armed with machetes attacking a 33-year-old man near the block where he lives, debraila.ro writes.

After being brutally beaten with a machete, the victim was left in a pool of blood and the attackers fled for blocks.