both suspects cleared

The two young people suspected of having administered an injection who were in custody at the Nîmes police station were exonerated and released

“The two young people arrested on Thursday June 2 have been released”, confirms Eric Maurel, public prosecutor of Nîmes. They were suspected of having administered an injection to a 19-year-old young man while he was at the counter of a bar on Boulevard Victor Hugo after the Pégoulade, Wednesday evening, at the start of the Pentecost feria.

The young man had felt a sharp pain in the lower back before turning around and seeing two individuals fleeing. The victim, a young 19-year-old Alésien was hospitalized at the Nîmes University Hospital for emergency treatment and analysis. The suspects were questioned this Friday, June 3 by investigators from the Departmental Security in charge of the investigation.

However, the Nîmes prosecutor warns: “these injections, which are more and more frequent at parties, can be assimilated to” violence with a weapon “, punishable by 3 years in prison and a 45,000 euro fine.

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