The soldier from the 19th engineering regiment of Besançon, seriously injured after an altercation in front of the HQ nightclub in Besançon, is in brain dead. Two of the three men who hit him during the night from Thursday to Friday were arrested and indicted for “aggravated willful violence committed in a meeting” and placed in pre-trial detention, the prosecutor announced on Tuesday. The third attacker is actively sought.
“Irreversible brain damage”
It was video surveillance cameras that made it possible to find them very quickly. The two men arrested are 19 years old. The first admitted to hitting the victim while she was standing, the second admitted to hitting her in the face while she was on the ground. The soldier, aged 26, fell back quite heavily on the tarmac. “It is this fall which certainly caused irreversible brain damage” according to the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux. “His death has not yet been pronounced but his life expectancy is almost reduced to nothing”, he added. The young people arrested explained that the alcohol they had consumed that night had completely disinhibited them.
“Inappropriate” behavior?
The two young men arrested following this attack explained that the soldier had behaved badly with the girlfriend of the third attacker. “He would have behaved inappropriately with her in the toilet”this is what they explained in police custody. The young girl delivered a different version. According to her, the soldier did not behave inappropriately, “he simply asked her for her phone number several times”. Which for the public prosecutor of Besançon is more akin to an attempt at seduction. The victim was from Guadeloupe, more precisely from the commune of Abymes.
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