A 26-year-old soldier is brain dead after a brawl in the parking lot of a nightclub, Le QG, in Besançon (Doubs), on November 8. According to the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux, in a press conference this Tuesday, “ his death has not yet been pronounced but his life expectancy is almost reduced to nothing “. The soldier of the 19e RG, originally from Guadeloupe, allegedly tried to make advances towards a woman in the nightclub. Following this, three men surrounded him in the parking lot. A punch to the head followed by a fall would have been fatal, according to video surveillance images, reports The Republican East.
The closed nightclub
The victim was treated at 3:51 a.m., but emergency services initially believed the man was suffering from alcoholism and only later realized the seriousness of his injuries. Alerted by the hospital, the police managed to identify two suspects out of the three. They were arrested on Saturday afternoon. “ They admitted their involvement in the facts. They explained this violence by the victim's inappropriate behavior with a young girl in the club's toilets, then on the way out. », According to the prosecutor. The young woman's boyfriend is one of the suspects.
One of the suspects is on the run. An arrest warrant was to be issued this Tuesday against him. As for the nightclub, it receives thirty days of administrative closure, taking into account “ numerous acts of violence » committed around it.
