Assaulted by a 38-year-old man at his home in Belz (Morbihan), on the evening of Friday April 15, a sexagenarian succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday April 19.
Beaten by his assailant, the 65-year-old man was finally declared dead on Tuesday when his vital prognosis was not engaged during his hospitalization. According to the public prosecutor at the Lorient prosecutor’s office, Stéphane Kellenberger, this attack would have originated “a background of probable previous dispute”.
The latter also indicated this Saturday morning that “the autopsy did not establish a formal link, from the outset, between the traumatic lesions and the death, apparently caused mainly by laryngeal edema”.
“An individual knocked on the window of the house from the road. Seeing that no one reacted, he went around to the other side, going down, ”detailed a close family member for Le Telegramme. The aunt of the victim, aged 83, then tried to intervene by crossing him but she was brutalized. According to the prosecutor of Lorient, the latter received 21 days of incapacity, due to two ribs and a fractured thumb as well as stitches in the head.
The attacker placed under judicial supervision
This Friday, the Lorient public prosecutor’s office requested the opening of a judicial investigation for “intentional violence resulting in death without the intention of giving it, intentional violence with ITT for more than 8 days, by person in a state of manifest intoxication, degradation serious”, according to the prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger.
Arrested shortly after the attack, the suspect was placed under judicial supervision while investigations continue to shed light on this case.