French student stabbed and left for dead was ‘victim of a vicious robbery’

THE young French student stabbed at an apartment complex in Dublin midweek, was the victim of a robbery, gardaí said yesterday.

Barbara Riouall, 23, who sustained multiple injuries, yesterday told gardaí she did not know her attacker.

Supt Eddie Quirke, leading the investigation, said the young woman’s condition is improving. Her parents, having travelled from the south of France, are at her bedside.