This 31-year-old man is dead hit by a tram after being assaulted on February 16, in Seine-Saint-Denis. A video broadcast on social networks has generated many political reactions, Monday.
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What happened to Jérémy Cohen, dead hit by a tram after being assaulted on February 16 in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis)? The recent dissemination of a video on social networks and political reactions have thrown a spotlight on the investigation around the death of this 31-year-old man.
On the images of a large online violence, a group surrounds a man, the mistake and strike him several times on the sidewalk. In his escape, the man runs running and runs off by a tram on the tracks.
Faced with the emotion, the bobigny floor has published a press release on April 4th. The Prosecutor of the Republic, Eric Mathais, explains that a survey was initially open for unintentional homicide. “Quickly, the elements collected made it possible to understand that, a few moments before the accident, the victim had suffered violence.” A second investigation for voluntary violence in meeting was therefore open. “The assumption that the victim has crossed the tracks of the tramway to escape his aggressors was obviously taken into account,” says the prosecutor.
The two procedures are now grouped: a judicial information was opened on 29 March “aimed at the highest possible qualification at this stage of the investigations”, namely voluntary violence in a meeting that resulted in death without the intention of the to give. In its statement, the parquet is evoking at this stage any element to retain the anti-Semitic nature of the aggression, which can be added at any time during the investigation.
Call for witnesses at any time.
On Radio Shalom, Jérémy Cohen’s brother, Raphael, says his brother’s Kippa was found on the spot, stating that he does not know if his brother wore it at the time of his aggression. His father, Gérald Cohen, evokes his handicapped son, massacred by “young people organized”, specifying to “trust justice”.
The two brothers of the victim launched a call to witness, distributing flyers in the mailboxes of the neighborhood, which would have made it possible to discover a video entrusted by a witness and, according to them, to revive the investigation . According to a police source, video surveillance images are operating, and a Dubai tourist would also have filmed the scene. He would have sent his video to the International Police Association fifteen days later, which would not have landed in the hands of the investigators before the end of March.
But the time of the survey is not the political time. With less than a week of the presidential election, several candidates have eager to react. The extreme right in the lead. Eric Zemmour has published not less than four tweets on the subject, followed by a current values forum, in which he denounces “all the poisoned cocktail of contemporary France”: “Laxism of justice. The cowardice of the media. Enraged anti-Semitism . Contempt for human life in the railings. “Marine Le Pen also wondered” How to explain the silence on this affair “which” could be an anti-Semitic murder “. Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France Insouchaise) displayed his “support” for the family, and asked “truth” and “justice”, just like the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
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