On Sunday, December 1, a dispute broke out outside a Bethon nightclub.
A young man was killed and another seriously injured.
Tuesday morning, three people suspected of being linked to these facts were arrested in the Paris region and placed in police custody.
The circumstances of the tragedy that occurred on Sunday, December 1, after 6 a.m. in front of a nightclub in Bethon, northwest of Troyes (Marne), still remain unclear. This Wednesday, the public prosecutor of Chalons-en-Champagne, Annick Brown, announced the arrest of several people suspected of being linked to this crime. “The multiple investigations carried out by investigators from the Reims research section led to the arrest on December 3 in the early morning of a young man in his twenties, placed in police custody for the acts of homicide and attempted intentional homicide and two young girls placed in police custody for the acts of failure to assist a person in danger and failure to report a crime. These three people, who have no criminal record, were arrested in their case. home in Paris region”the magistrate reports.
The measure was extended this Wednesday morning and the Châlons-en-Champagne public prosecutor's office relinquished responsibility in favor of the Reims public prosecutor's office, which is taking over the direction of the investigation under the criminal division.
A heart wound caused by a knife
On the day of the crime, the perpetrator fled in a blue/gray vehicle. Alerted to the facts by witnesses, the gendarmes of the Esternay brigade, joined by those of the Épernay research brigade, immediately returned to the scene of the events. An investigation was opened by the prosecution for intentional homicide and attempted intentional homicide.
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A first examination carried out by a forensic doctor showed that the victim died. “a single deep wound in the lower thoracic region having most certainly injured thoracic organs and compatible with a blow with a sharp object”.
The autopsy of the victim's body carried out on December 3, compared with the investigation data, confirmed the initial findings on the cause of death.
