On the night of Friday to Saturday, a 29-year-old man died after being fatally injured during a fight that took place in a town in La Manche.
The young man died after being “victim of a blow to the chest with a stab,” prosecutor Mickaël Giraudet said in a statement. Three men were placed in police custody and questioned, according to the public prosecutor of Coutances relayed by Agence France Presse (AFP), “on the facts qualified at this stage, as murder and complicity in murder”, said said the magistrate.
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 invective 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 in his press release.
The victim was quickly taken care of
The victim was taken care of by an ambulance which passed by chance on the scene of the tragedy, then by the firefighters, but she died despite their intervention. According to the Coutances prosecutor, the vehicle in question and its occupants fled before being intercepted by the surveillance and intervention squad of the gendarmerie (Psig), thanks to indications provided by witnesses of the scene.
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.