Montpellier: severely beaten and robbed of his electric bike by five attackers on the run

Tuesday evening, at the level of the streets of Algiers and of the Republic, at Montpellier, five individuals – on the run – hit and robbed a pedestrian of his valuable electric bike. A witness tells this Friday June 28, 2024 to Metropolitan.

This Montpellier shopkeeper was accompanying this friend, a father of three children, home on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, around 11:30 p.m., when they were approached and quickly surrounded by five very aggressive young people: “We had just watched the Euro football match between France and Poland in the city center, and we were returning to our apartments. I was accompanying my friend who, like me, was pushing his electric bike worth €5,000, on foot, when strangers behaving violently attacked us.”

The shopkeeper reveals that, “everything quickly degenerated, the attackers wanted the bike, but also had their eye on my friend’s watch worth more than €20,000. It was a heinous act. They beat him up, threw him to the ground and managed to steal the bike. But even though there were five of us against them, they were unable to get hold of the watch. The attackers immediately took off running, one of them riding the bike.”

According to our information, passers-by present in this busy artery that evening did not flinch. Police help was notified, as well as the firefighters of Sdis 34 who transported the victim to the emergency room of Lapeyronie hospital. Mobile gendarmerie patrols as reinforcements in Montpellier carried out rounds, in vain.

“After receiving appropriate care, it turned out that he had a fractured nose. He was granted a six-day total work stoppage, a medical document brought on Wednesday, June 26, to the police officer at the central police station who recorded his complaint against X”, explains the witness to Metropolitan, who assures that his friend has been traumatized since the events. He was able to give a fairly precise description and the approximate age of the perpetrators, probably minors and/or young adults.

Since then, the two friends have been monitoring the Bon Coin site and carrying out research in the suburbs – Gambetta, Figuerolles, Saint-Denis – known for street sales of valuable objects which are sold off. “My friend will remember the France-Poland Euro match for a long time,” says the local trader.

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