Tested with some contracts and turns out we can KO people on stairs by the melee moves 47 does of smacking them in the head with his hands and now it won’t get you spotted!
Remember how in H2 you automatically losed Never Spotted when doing this? Well, it’s fixed. Still, it’s safer to do so with NPCs that are going down stairs. With NPCs going up there’s small window during one of the animations where they might be able to spot you.
Oh that is because he is strangling Francois. Francois is a dickhead who swipes drugs from the evidence locker and sells them on the streets at a mark up, everyone in the gendarme knows but he is in good with Fournier so there was nothing they could do.
You took 3 years to notice the darta of the Kalmer, and now I realize I took that same amount of time to notice that these also work in melee combat. xD