An 18-year-old young man died and another was seriously injured with a stab on the night of Saturday June 22 to Sunday June 23, 2024 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres), announced the prosecution, after a brawl “involving several people” according to a police source
The events occurred in the Port-Boinot district being reconverted, a former industrial wasteland that has become a wooded area on the banks of the Sèvre Niortaise.
“It was a brawl involving several people. One of them took out a knife which injured two people”one of which was fatal, a police source explained to AFP, specifying that the perpetrator(s) were still being sought.
The firefighters intervened at 3:25 a.m. to “to help (these) two men injured with knives a few minutes earlier”wrote Julien Wattebled, public prosecutor in Niort, in a press release, confirming information from the daily The New Republic.
An investigation opened for murder and attempted murder
The two victims were evacuated to the hospital, where the death of a young man aged 18 was noted at 4:30 a.m. The other victim, of the same age, was operated on urgently with a life-threatening prognosis. . His condition remains at this stage “serious but stabilized”according to the prosecutor.
The prosecution opened an investigation into murder and attempted murder, entrusted to the Niort police station and the interdepartmental judicial police service (SIPJ 86), organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) of Poitiers.
“All means are being used to identify the author(s) of these acts and to understand their origin”said the prosecution, which launched a call for witnesses.
