The violence that preceded the death of this young man of Jewish confession, struck by a tram in mid-February, do not have “discriminatory reasons” at this stage of the investigation, said Tuesday the Prosecutor of Bobigny, Eric Mathais.
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“We have all been upset by the scenes that have been made public and I mean my solidarity and my support for Jeremy Cohen’s family.” On the move to Spezet, in Finistère, Emmanuel Macron asked on Tuesday, April 5th That all the light be made on the death of Jeremy Cohen, a young man of Jewish confession hit in mid-February by a tram in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, following violence.
“Justice must pass, the complete clarity must be made,” continued the president candidate, stressing that “an instruction has been opened” and that “justice leads independently his work”. He wished “that the investigation is as fast as possible to provide answers” to the 31-year-old family family.
Tuesday, the bobigny prosecutor, Eric Mathais, said that the violence that preceded the death of the 31-year-old did not have “discriminatory reasons” at this stage of the investigation.
What happened on February 16th
On Wednesday, February 16, Jeremy Cohen, suffering from a disability not visible As his family has specified to Radio Shalom , crossed the railways when it was hit by a tram, shortly after 20 hours.
On a widely shared video on social networks Monday, we see it receives violent punches, encircled by a dozen people. He falls on the ground, gets up and runs through the road the air disoriented, before being hit by the tram. In cardio-respiratory arrest and victim of a cranial trauma he died at the hospital shortly after midnight. According to the family, a kippa was found near the body of the deceased.
Two open surveys
Following this drama, a first investigation was opened for what was then similar to a deadly traffic accident. But the family wonders, tracts in the district of the drama and collects testimonials and a video.
“All the evidence has been delivered to the necessary authorities, both the police and the prosecutor’s office,” said Gérald Cohen, on Radio Shalom, indicating that the first investigation was classified. A video, received on March 10 by the investigators, accrediting the hypothesis of an altercation, according to a police source.
A second investigation for “Voluntary Violence in Meeting” was opened on Monday the Bobigny Prosecutor, Eric Mathais, in a statement, because “quickly the elements collected allowed to understand that, a few moments before the accident, The victim had suffered violence “.
These procedures led to the opening of judicial information on March 29 for “voluntary violence in a meeting that resulted in person without intention to give it,” the “highest possible qualification at this stage of investigations”, specified the prosecutor in his statement. The investigations are now entrusted to an investigating judge and the judicial police of the department.
No anti-Semitic Mobile established “To date”
While some presidential candidates evoked Monday an anti-Semitic motif to the aggression that preceded the death of Jeremy Cohen, “no element does not allow this day to establish with certainty that the victim was carrying Apparently or not a kippa at the time of the violence scene, “said Bobigny’s Attorney, Eric Mathais, at a press conference. The violence that preceded the death of the young man therefore have for the time not “discriminatory reasons” at this stage of the investigation.
“The Cohen family does not just scream with anti-Semitism,” said Monday night on BFM-TV Franck Serfati, family lawyer. “It would be denaturing the facts and prejudice. But we must not exclude at the time that it is the aggravating element of anti-Semitism.”