The owner of a café on Place de la Fontaine-Chaude, in Dax, remains under the surveillance of the medical staff of the Basque Coast Hospital Center, after being seriously injured in the head during a brawl. .
The owner of a café on Place de la Fontaine-Chaude, in Dax, remains under the surveillance of the medical staff of the Basque Coast Hospital Center, after being seriously injured in the head during a brawl in front of his establishment, on the night of Friday June 21 to Saturday June 22, 2024.
First taken to the emergency room of the thermal city hospital, around 5 a.m., this man was then evacuated towards Bayonne in order to best treat various fractures and edemas noted at the level of the skull and the orbital floor, we learned this Monday, June 24.
“A flagrant investigation following violence committed in a meeting has been opened,” confirms the public prosecutor of Dax, Benoît Fontaine. Entrusted to the police officers from the Dacquois police station, it aims to establish the exact circumstances of this attack committed at the end of the Music Festival. According to the magistrate, it seems that this happened while “the victim was intervening to stop a fight”.
“Violence in meetings”
Various testimonies were collected and the use of images from video surveillance cameras, installed in and around the square, began this Monday, according to a source close to the matter. The identification of the various members of the group suspected of being at the origin of this violence is underway, with possible arrests to come.
The fight would have started when the Secreto teams were putting away the tables and chairs on their terrace, at the end of an evening where a prefectural exemption allows cafes to postpone the usual closing time.
In the deluge of blows that followed, one of the protagonists allegedly threw the cafe owner to the ground and caused the injuries subsequently noted. Two other people were beaten during this brawl. One of them suffered from nose pain and the other from the head, with a wound requiring sutures.
