While Hugh of Jaffa was awaiting a boat to go into exile in Italy, he was badly wounded in an assasination attack in a Jerusalem street. The attempted assassin, a Breton knight, claimed to have acted on his own initiative, to gain Fulk's favour, but all assumed that Fulk was more directly involved, and public opinion turned against him. However he arranged the Breton's execution by mutilation, which was completed without the man implicating him