Two men have been charged and imprisoned in the case of the death of Jeremie Cohen.
This Friday, the Bobigny prosecution announced that two young men have been indicted and imprisoned, in the case of the death of Jeremie Cohen, young man of the Jewish faith who had been fatally struck last February by a tram after being struck.
The defendants, aged 27 and 23, were indicted on the count of “willful violence in a meeting” for one and “willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it” for the second, said Bobigny prosecutor Eric Mathais.
The two men had presented themselves spontaneously to the police on Tuesday and had then been taken into custody. The prosecution had requested their placement in pre-trial detention on Thursday.
A decision hailed by the lawyer for the family of the victim Me Franck Serfati. He told France 3 Paris-Île-de-France to “welcome the decision of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and its responsiveness“.
The statements of the two suspects while in police custody, in particular on the “chronology of events“, suggest that “the violence would be linked to the behavior of the victim, to which they would have reacted by hitting him“, specified the public ministry.
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“, repeated the prosecutor of Bobigny, Eric Mathais. Wednesday, February 16 at 20h, Jeremie Cohen, 31 and with a slight disability, was crossing the train tracks when he was hit by the tram in Bobigny just after being hit by several young people. According to the depositions of the two men,two scenes of violence“succeeded.
The video filmed by a witness and transmitted to the investigators concerned the second. In these images, widely relayed on social networks, we see the victim receiving violent punches, surrounded by a dozen people.
The young man falls to the ground, gets up, then runs across the roadway, the air disorientedbefore being hit by the tram. The investigation, which is continuing under the aegis of an examining magistrate, is being carried out by investigators from the judicial police of the department.
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