Beaten up for asking a woman's phone number in a nightclub, a 26-year-old soldier in a state of brain death

Attacked in front of a discotheque in Besançon, on the night of Thursday, a 26-year-old soldier found himself in “brain dead state”, announced the Public Prosecutor of Besançon, Étienne Manteaux, during a press conference given this Tuesday, November 12.“His death has not yet been pronounced but his life expectancy is almost reduced to zero, due to the severity of his brain damage”.

Two of the attackers arrested

Two of his three attackers were arrested during the weekend, identified using video surveillance cameras. The third person involved is still being sought. They were indicted this Monday, November 11 for “aggravated intentional violence”, before being placed in pre-trial detention, reports France 3.

Both aged 19, they declared during their police custody that they had hit the victim because of “inappropriate behavior” towards the girlfriend of the third attacker, in the toilets of the nightclub. She refuted these remarks. According to the Public Prosecutor, the soldier would have “on two occasions, attempted a seductive approach, asking him for his mobile number”.

An act that did not please the three men. In front of the HQ nightclub, they beat him in the face and made him fall violently on his head. Hospitalized since Friday, the twenty-year-old is in an artificial coma and suffers from serious brain damage.