Two men will be presented to an examining magistrate with a view to their indictment, in particular for "willful violence", after the death of Jeremie Cohen, this young man of the Jewish faith who was fatally hit in February by a tram after being hit, announced Thursday the parquet floor of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The two men, aged 27 and 23, had presented themselves spontaneously to the police on Tuesday and had been taken into custody, added in a press release the prosecution, which requested their placement in pre-trial detention.
Discriminatory motive?
The statements of the two suspects during their police custody, in particular on the “chronology of events”, suggest that “the violence would be linked to the behavior of the victim”, specified the prosecution, without giving more details.
At this stage of the investigation, "there is still no objective element to characterize a discriminatory motive, in particular anti-Semitic, at the origin of the violence", specified the prosecutor of Bobigny Eric Mathais.
On Wednesday February 16 around 8:00 p.m., Jeremie Cohen, 31 years old and with a slight disability, was crossing the railway tracks when he was hit by the tram in Bobigny, just after being hit by several young people.
In cardiorespiratory arrest and victim of a head trauma, he died in hospital shortly after midnight.
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