1. A case that dates back to February 17, 2022
The young man died on February 17 after being knocked down by a tram in Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis. Immediately, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office took up the case and opened an investigation for “manslaughter”. Le Parisien relays the information, relating the collision that occurred between the Liberation and La Ferme stations. The RATP then specifies that the victim crossed the tracks outside the pedestrian crossings.
2. An attack would have taken place before the death of Jérémy Cohen
During their investigations, the police interviewed several witnesses. And some evoke an altercation preceding the drama. But the facts remain unclear until the investigators recover a video shot by a local resident. “Quickly, the elements collected made it possible to understand that, a few moments before the accident, the victim suffered violence“, underlined the prosecutor of the Republic of Bobigny, Eric Mathais, in a press release issued Monday, April 4. “The hypothesis that the victim crossed the tram tracks to escape his attackers was naturally taken into account.“, he added.
3. Opening of a judicial investigation for “intentional violence in a meeting resulting in death without intention to give it“.
After having collected the first elements of the investigation and met the family of the victim, the prosecutor opened, on March 29, a judicial investigation for “intentional violence in a meeting resulting in death without intention to give it”. The investigations are now continuing under the authority of an investigating judge, who has entrusted the investigation to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.
4. A news item taken up by the candidates for the presidential election
“Did he die to flee scum? Did he die because he was a Jew? Why is this case hushed up?“, wonders Éric Zemmour on Twitter before mentioning “the death of one of our children”. “What was presented as an accident could be an anti-Semitic murder. How to explain the silence on this case and its motivations ?” Comments Marine Le Pen.
5. When the case invites itself into the presidential campaign
Since Monday, April 4, several candidates for the presidency of the Republic have taken up the file. According to Le Figaro, the office of the Head of State successively met with the mother and then the father of the deceased on Monday evening. At the same time, Valérie Pécresse, for her part, denounces a “despicable lynching, which could be anti-Semitic in nature”and recalls its desire to set up a “ zero impunity against barbarians”.
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