Five people aged 23 to 33 were brought before an investigating judge this Monday after the death of a forty-year-old on Friday evening during a brawl in Tinqueux, near Reims (Marne), the prosecution announced.
Five people were brought before an investigating judge this Monday, December 23 in the morning, after a fatal brawl which took place in Tinqueux, near Reims (Marne). A man in his forties died on Friday December 20 after being killed on a public highway.
According to the Reims public prosecutor's office, the individuals concerned were brought to justice for “violence resulting in death without intention to cause it, complicity, aggravated willful violence and failure to assist a person in danger.”
According to the firefighters, who intervened around 9:10 p.m. “for a brawl”, the man was transported to the Reims hospital center. The victim had a bleeding wound on his head, said a police source.
“In cardiorespiratory arrest”
According to the first elements of the investigation, the man was attacked by several individuals following a dispute that arose during a “drinking evening with friends”. The situation escalated when a guest behaved inappropriately towards a young woman.
The latter would then have slipped away from the party before returning “with several people”. They then attacked the victim, hitting him before he fell to the ground. An ordeal which did not stop there since the latter was again subjected to violence once on the ground according to the authorities.
“The alleged perpetrators of the attacks do not really contest them but contradict each other on their seriousness,” they specify.
The forty-year-old was found lying on the ground, “in cardio-respiratory arrest”, before being transported to hospital where he died around 11 p.m. A flagrant investigation was opened for murder and aggravated willful violence.
