He wants to understand what happened to his brother that night. A., a resident of the Paris region, calls for witnesses in The voice of the Northto highlight what happened to B., his brother on the night of June 16 to 17.
Around 4:53 a.m., B., a 30-year-old young man from Senegal, was found “lying on the ground on the sidewalk” in rue de Puebla, at the corner of rue Masséna, in Lille (Nord). The young man was still conscious when he was hospitalized.
“His condition had deteriorated during the day. At the CHR, they ended up placing him in an artificial coma. There was an operation, the doctors really did everything. There, it is miraculous. If he wakes up, he will have irreversible consequences,” A. told the regional daily.
“A fight? »
But A. was warned late since his brother did not have his papers on him when he was taken care of by the emergency services. “Given that he is of age, I could not file a complaint, I just made an information report. I contacted the city as soon as I could for video surveillance, he explains again. Mr. Menault (security assistant) answered me very quickly but he was sorry, we had exceeded the time for storing the images. Other elected officials called me back too. »
A. started an investigation. He notably collected the testimony of a person evoking a possible fight “but without certainty”.
According to his information, his brother had spent the evening in a disco but he was expelled because of his alcoholism. He was found a few meters from this establishment.
A. has lived in Lille since 2017: “It was going badly for him lately, he was sinking, he was going out and partying all the time. »
A call for witnesses is then launched: that evening, B. wore ripped jeans, neon green Nike sneakers. He is 1.70 m tall and has black skin. La Voix du Nord does not attach a photo to the call for witnesses.