A 29-year-old man died after being stabbed during a brawl in a town in La Manche on the night of Friday to Saturday.
The young man lost his life after being “victim of a blow to the chest with a stab,” said prosecutor Mickaël Giraudet. “Three men are currently in police custody and questioned on the facts qualified, at this stage, as murder and complicity in murder”, according to the magistrate.
“Reciprocal invectives with the occupants of a vehicle”
The facts occurred overnight in Saint-Hilaire-du Harcouët, near Avranches. According to the first elements collected, the blow was struck at the victim following “reciprocal insults with the occupants of a vehicle”. “Three young men in their twenties” got out of this car and one of them then stabbed the victim with a stab, adds the prosecutor.
The victim was taken care of by an ambulance which passed by chance on the scene and then by the firefighters, but she died despite their intervention.
According to the prosecutor of Coutances, the vehicle in question and its occupants had fled before being intercepted by the surveillance and intervention squad of the gendarmerie (Psig), thanks to indications provided by witnesses of the scene. Apart from the three men in police custody, two other occupants of the vehicle, one 20 years old and the other a minor, are heard as witnesses.
The investigation, conducted under the direction of the Coutances prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the Avranches Research Brigade, is continuing “in order to determine precisely the exact circumstances of this crime”, according to the prosecutor.