He had been wanted since early December after the death of a 20-year-old man and presented himself to court. Other suspects are still being sought.
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A 17-year-old teenager presented himself to the Montbéliard judicial court (Territoire de Belfort) on Wednesday, reported Friday January 12 France Bleu Belfort-Monbéliard. The young man was wanted, suspected of having participated in the fatal lynching of a 20-year-old man, found dying on the side of a road near Danjoutin, on December 7. The teenager was indicted after his police custody and placed in pre-trial detention.
In this case, the victim was beaten up in the street, in Belfort, by several people. A beating “extremely violent”, against a backdrop of drug trafficking, indicated the public prosecutor of Montbéliard, Paul-Édouard Lallois. The 20-year-old young man was then taken into the forest, then left for dead on the edge of the RD47. He died three days later at Besançon University Hospital. An investigation into “kidnapping and sequestration followed by death” had been opened.
Investigators from the Besançon judicial police are still looking for several suspects, specifies the Montbéliard prosecutor. The first was arrested and imprisoned on December 19.
