INFO LE FIGARO – Kilian B., aged 17, was stabbed in the throat during a fight in a parking lot. The perpetrator, an Algerian national who had a 10-year residence permit, was arrested.
A young man aged 17 died this Sunday after being stabbed in Subles (Calvados), outside a nightclub, we learned Le Figaro from consistent sources. A suspect of Algerian nationality aged around twenty was arrested. He was taken into custody by the police. According to a source close to the matter joined by Le Figaroand “supposed accomplice” present during the events, under OQTF, surrendered to the authorities and was heard as a witness. He will be placed in an administrative detention center (CRA), we are told.
According to our information, the events occurred on Sunday morning, around 6 a.m., when leaving the L’Octavia nightclub. As she returned to her car, the victim, Kilian B., who was a young boxer from Saint-Lô, in Manche, was involved in a fight in the parking lot with the suspect. The individual allegedly retrieved a knife from his parked car before stabbing the teenager in the neck. He was then held by one of the nightclub security guards until the arrival of the gendarmerie, we are told and according to a video posted on social networks.
“Supposed accomplice” under OQTF
“The person who was arrested (Sunday) morning at the scene was interviewed. (A) certain number of elements (…) lead us to believe that he is the author of the stabbings.explained the public prosecutor of Caen, Joël Garrigue, to our colleagues from France 3. “Despite the presence of blood on his clothes, despite the fact that the individual was found with the weapon which was used to commit the acts, this person” initially denied the facts outright, before finally admitting them. The suspect in the murder is of Algerian nationality and had a residence permit in France valid for 10 years, which was reportedly renewed recently.
And “supposed accomplice”present during the events, went to the gendarmerie to be heard as a witness. This man was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) issued in January 2023. He is included in the wanted persons file and is known in particular for rebellion, refusal to comply and driving without a license, he said. -we learned. He will be placed in an administrative detention center, according to our latest information.
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“We die in France going to have fun in a nightclub”
Jean Métay, trainer of the Saint-Lois Boxing Club to which Kilian B. regularly came, paid tribute to him on Facebook, sending him a “big thought”. “Big thought for our boxer (…) murdered last night with a knife by a coward at 17 years old. Yes, we die in France going to have fun in a nightclub”we can read. Kilian B. had been crowned “champion of Normandy hopefuls” last March.
The L’Octavia nightclub, for its part, displayed a black background on its Facebook account, to signify a period of mourning. “Courage to his parents and his family, I hope that justice will be done. He was out having fun. What world do we live in, it’s horrible, what will become of the new generation growing up and resting in peace?” writes a nightclub regular on the L’Octavia page.
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Several organizations and political figures classified on the right of the political spectrum have denounced this murder, such as the unsuccessful candidate in the presidential election Éric Zemmour, who denounces in a hashtag a «francocide»a term he uses to point out the “death of a Frenchman because he is French”as he explained in 2022. The Uni student union also denounced this murder, as well as European MP Marion Maréchal, vice-president of the National Rally Hélène Laporte and senator LR Valérie Boyer.
Some Internet users posted photo montages with the slogan «Justice pour Kylian»and linking the murder of Kylian to that of Philippine, discovered buried in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris) on September 21. An individual under OQTF was arrested in Geneva. An investigation was entrusted to the Caen gendarmerie research brigade.
