2023-07-12 10:12:00
A 72-year-old man died on Tuesday following being attacked a few days earlier outside his home in Vieux-Condé (North) by young people whom he had asked to make less noise, we learned from the Valenciennes prosecutor’s office. .
“Three individuals” aged 18, 17 and 14, “who had no criminal record”, were indicted, according to the prosecution.
On the night of July 5 to 6, the Valenciennes police intervened in Vieux-Condé following the attack on this man “who was discovered lying on the public highway”.
According to the first investigations, the victim had left her home around 11:00 p.m. “due to the noisy presence of these three young people in front of her home”, underlined the prosecution.
While the man invited them to leave the premises, “an altercation ensued, the 17-year-old young man punching and kicking the victim multiple times, especially when the latter was on the ground following to have fallen under the impact of the blows”, added this same source.
Hospitalized since, his “vital prognosis was engaged”. According to a source familiar with the matter, he had been brain dead since Saturday.
The 17-year-old young man, placed in pre-trial detention, was indicted for “attempted murder”, a charge for which the prosecution indicated that it had requested reclassification as “intentional homicide” following the death of the victim.
Young people aged 18 and 14 were indicted for “non-impediment to commit a crime or misdemeanor and failure to assist a person in danger”.
“I have remained silent until today in the face of the tragedy that has affected our city. Like all of you, I am in a state of shock at this act of rare violence,” said the mayor of the town. David Bustin on Tuesday in a statement.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin castigated on Twitter “an attack of nameless cowardice”, assuring “this tragedy will not go unpunished”.
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