Mathéo's evening turned into a tragedy on the night of November 2 to 3. While returning from an evening with friends in the center of Dijon (Côte-d'Or), the 19-year-old young man was robbed and beaten up by a group of men, denounce the victim and his mother on Facebook and in Le Bien public. He was said to have been “left for dead”. A complaint was filed and an investigation was opened, the Dijon prosecutor's office confirmed to Le Parisien on Monday evening.
According to his story in the regional daily, around 2 a.m. on the night of Saturday to Sunday, Mathéo headed towards his car after spending the evening in a nightclub. “On the way, I am accosted by people from afar, but I don’t respond, I lower my head and move forward,” relates the young man.
Blows to the face
The group, composed according to its summary description, of “four to six individuals dressed in dark” approaches: “They talk to me about my phone, money and my car, I still don’t answer. » This is where his attackers take action: “And there, they tell me that it was not a question. There was no blah blahthey fell on me. »
The blows rain. “I received five or six kicks in the face and I lost consciousness,” he explains. The attackers abandon him. “Left for dead,” wrote Aline, the young man’s mother, on Facebook, calling on witnesses the day after the attack to contact the gendarmes.
The young man returns to the nightclub to find help. The manager of the establishment came to his aid. At the hospital, treated for bruises on the face and body, Mathéo receives a certificate for ten days of temporary work interruption (ITT). “Luckily, his brain was not affected, the doctors were reassuring, but it could have ended badly, they beat him up and left him for dead,” his mother confided to the Public Good.
A call for witnesses
On Facebook on Sunday, the victim's mother launched a call for witnesses. She describes a “group of four to six people of North African type, around 1.80 m, dark-colored tracksuits”. She calls on possible witnesses to contact the Auxonne gendarmerie.
The mother claims to have been contacted immediately by other victims who were also victims in the same area. “I received messages from other young people who had also been attacked there, it’s worrying,” she laments to the regional daily. Leaving someone for dead for a phone, where are we going? This has to stop. » “The victim’s phone and wallet were stolen,” confirms the Dijon prosecutor’s office.
This Tuesday at midday, this call for witnesses had been shared more than 2,000 times, probably attracting the attention of the Identity-Libertés 21 Federation, a political movement launched by Marion Maréchal. According to Le Bien public, which has read their press release, the movement denounces “the significant increase in acts of delinquency in our city” and calls for “strong measures to restore order and security”, the extension of the video surveillance throughout the metropolis of Dijon, “the end of the delegation of security to private companies” and “the arming of municipal police officers throughout the territory of the metropolis”.
The municipal councilor LR, president of the Agir pour Dijon group and former candidate for mayor in 2020, Emmanuel Bichot, published on Facebook his encouragement to Mathéo and his mother: “Bravo to Mathéo and his mother, we must react ! Full support »
