The two men, aged 24 and 28, are suspected of having fatally stabbed a third man, who died on Sunday 1 September in Antibes.
Two men, brothers aged 24 and 28, have been charged and placed in pre-trial detention following a fatal knife attack which took place in Antibes on Sunday 1 September, following the prosecution’s requests, announced the public prosecutor of Grasse.
They had been arrested on the day of the fight and taken into custody early in the morning, suspected of having fatally stabbed the young man who died during the fight.
After initially denying their involvement in the man’s death, they both admitted to punching and kicking the victim. They did not, however, admit to attacking the victim with a knife.
The two brothers were brought before a magistrate at the end of their police custody, with a view to opening a judicial investigation for murder and for voluntary violence in a group.
A death by knife
On Sunday, at 5 a.m., police officers discovered a person injured by a bladed weapon after going to a fight on Boulevard Édouard-Baudoin. A witness had tried to give first aid to the young man on the ground, surrounded by about fifty people.
The firefighters, also on the scene, were unable to resuscitate him, and the man succumbed to his injuries on the spot.
