At the time of his attack, the victim was heading to his car after spending the evening with friends.
The evening of Mathéo 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 young man of 19 ans was robbed and beaten by a group of men, denounce the victim and his mother on Facebook and in the columns of Public good.
According to his story in the regional daily, around 2 a.m. on the night of Saturday to Sunday, Mathéo walks to his car after spending the evening at 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.
The group, composed according to its summary description, of “four to six individuals dressed in dark” approach : “They talk to me about my phone, about money and my car, I still don’t answer”. This is where his attackers take action: “And then they told me that it wasn't a question. There was no blah blahthey fell on me.”
The blows rain. “I was kicked in the face five or six times and lost consciousness,” he explains. The attackers abandon him. “Left for dead“, wrote Aline, the young man's mother, the next day on Facebook, accompanying her publication with a photograph of her son his face swollen and marked with several wounds, a black eye, a bloody lip.
A “group of four to six people of the Maghreb type”
The young man then 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 is not affected, the doctors were reassuring, but it could have ended badly, They beat him up and left him for dead.”, entrusts his mother to Public good.
In her Facebook post on Sunday, the victim's mother launched a call for witnesses shared more than 2,000 times this Tuesday at midday. She describes and “group of four to six people of North African typeapproximately 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 thereit's worryingshe laments to the regional daily. Leaving someone for dead for a phone, where are we going? This has to stop.”.
If the circumstances of the tragedy still remain a little unclear, a complaint has been filed and an investigation opened to determine the reasons for this beating. According to the authorities, the attack is linked to theft of a phone and wallet belonging to the victim, since they disappeared during the events. According to France 3 Burgundy-Franche-Comtévideo surveillance images will be analyzed.
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