Near Nice, her husband is brutally beaten in the street: “He could have died”

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INFO ACTU NICE. He was just going to work. Around 6 a.m., Thursday December 12, 2024, Marc, 55, was beaten up by several individuals in the area of ​​the Antibes SNCF station, near Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), on avenue Jules Grec.

He was taken to hospital and is still in intensive care, according to his wife, still shocked, who testifies for news Nice.

“They took out a tear gas bomb”

The events occurred Thursday, December 12 in the early morning. While Marc is on his way to take his 5:50 a.m. train at Antibes station to go to his workplace in Saint-Laurent-du-Var. He is a carpenter. But on the way, at Avenue Jules Grec, they meet “three young people”.

The rest, his wife, Stéphanie, tells news Nice. “He walked quietly to catch his train and three young people passed by, pushing himhe told them that the least they could do was apologize. They took out a tear gas canister and gassed him. »

The Antibois tries to escape by running, “but he is 55 years old, they are 20 years old”, it is impossible to lose them.

“They put him on the ground and beat him”

Then follows an outbreak of violence.

They put him on the ground and beat him with kicks and punches. He screamed for help and someone must have heard him because they called the fire brigade. This lasted about 10 minutes. He was admitted to Antibes hospital at 6:25 a.m.

Marc is injured: punctured lung8 broken ribs, fractured shoulder and jaw. His eye “came out of its socket”, says his wife. Contacted, the firefighters confirmed news Nice that they intervened Thursday morning, around 6 a.m., for an injured person on the public highway following “a brawl near the Antibes interchange hub”. His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy.

This Wednesday, he is still hospitalized. “When I went to see him, he was unrecognizable,” confides Stéphanie. “Even my children, I don’t want them to see him like that. »

A man described as hardworking and selfless

According to her, doctors do not yet know if he will have any after-effects in his lungs. His ITT (total incapacity for work) should last six months. Described as a hard worker, “he had never taken sick leave in his life”.

After fear, stupefaction.

I didn’t eat when I came home in the evening and then I broke down mentally and isolated myself to cry at home. Why is this happening to him? He always wants to help others, he has his hand on his heart, he was a volunteer firefighter in his youth.

Stéphanie is certain: “They had to push him hard to get him to say something, he’s not someone who’s looking for a fight.” Above all, she is convinced that the individuals were looking “a target” to beat up that morning. “They wanted to beat someone up. »

Legal proceedings not yet started

His boss, Nicolas Ciarafoni, is also in shock. “He’s not at all aggressive, I’ve known him for 17 years. This is not normal,” he toldnews Nice.

The legal proceedings have not yet started. Stéphanie claims to have filed a complaint at the Antibes police station but Marc still needs to be heard by the police, she explains. Requested by us, the Grasse public prosecutor’s office has, for the moment, not responded to our request.

“I really thank the person or people who intervened. He could have died,” insists Antiboise. For his part, the father is slowly recovering from the events. He should join a rest center in the town, “if all goes well”, after yet another chest x-ray.

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