A man beaten to death in a Parisian building lobby

An investigation is opened for murder. The victim was known to the police.

A 47-year-old man was beaten to death in the lobby of a building in the 20th arrondissement of Paris on the night of Tuesday November 19 to Wednesday November 20, franceinfo learned on Wednesday from a source close to the case, information confirmed by the prosecution from Paris. The prosecution specifies that the victim, Mounir C., is “already known to the courts”.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the firefighters were alerted around midnight on Wednesday and intervened while the victim was in cardio-respiratory arrest in the hall of a building located rue des Amandiers. The investigation opened for murder is entrusted to the criminal brigade.