The tragic news item occurred this Thursday, November 7 in the middle of the night in Morteau, a commune in Haut-Doubs located near the Swiss border.
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It was 1:15 a.m. when the alert was given. Firefighters were called to a fight on the public highway, rue Fauché in the town center of Morteau. When they arrived, a single man, aged 60, was in cardiorespiratory arrest. Despite an attempt at resuscitation, the sixty-year-old was declared dead by the SMUR doctor.
According to initial information from the gendarmerie, the man was violently beaten by another man aged 21. The latter was arrested and taken into custody. The circumstances of the tragedy remain to be clarified, the investigation is underway as well as toxicological analyzes.
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