A 29-year-old man died after being fatally stabbed during a brawl in a town in La Manche on the night of Friday to Saturday and three men are in police custody, AFP learned from of the public prosecutor of Coutances.
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The young man died after beingvictim of a blow to the chest with a knife“said prosecutor Mickaël Giraudet in a press release.
“Three men are currently in custody and questioned on the facts qualified, at this stage, as murder and complicity in murder“, according to 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 insults with the occupants of a vehicle“.
“Three young men in their twenties“would have gotten out of this car and one of them would then have carried “a stab wound to the victim“, adds the prosecutor in his press release.
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 custody, “two other occupants of the vehicle, one 20 years old and the other a minor, are heard as witnesses“, adds the prosecutor.
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The investigation conducted under the direction of the Coutances public 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.