Reims: a young man killed with a knife, a suspect indicted

A man has been indicted for murder and imprisoned after the stabbing murder of a 26-year-old young man after an alcoholic evening on Saturday in Reims, we learned from the prosecution on Monday. . Notified around 7 a.m. Saturday that a man was injured at his home, the emergency services failed to prevent his death, which occurred around 8 a.m., said in a press release the public prosecutor of Reims Matthieu Bourrette.

23-year-old man taken into custody

The victim’s autopsy revealed “two stab wounds, one of which was fatal, in addition to some traces of struggle on the face and on the hands”, further indicates the prosecutor. At the victim’s home, the police arrested and then placed in custody a 23-year-old man, “very alcoholic and who had called the emergency services”. According to the accounts of several other participants in this evening, organized for the birthday of one of them, this young man “had had several verbal and physical altercations during the evening with the victim, because he reproached this last to seek to avoid him during this evening”.

One of them even said he saw him stab him. Four of these men were also taken into custody as part of this investigation, before being released. The main suspect denies any altercation, and accuses one of the other participants of having hit the victim, claiming to have sought to intervene. Indicted for murder and placed under a warrant, he was already under judicial control for acts of violence. The investigation will have to specify “the course of the facts during this evening, the motive for the passage to the act which in the state of the investigations seems particularly futile, for facts likely to have been committed against a background of heavy alcoholism” , emphasizes in his text Matthieu Bourrette.