The shock, this Saturday morning, in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët. In the night, a 29-year-old man stabbed to death in the middle of the street, in the city of the South-Manche. He was stabbed in the chest and succumbed to his injuries. An investigation is opened for murder, by the Coutances prosecutor’s office, to understand what happened.
Three men taken into custody this Saturday morning
According to our colleagues from the Free Channel, the scene occurs around 1 a.m., when the bar Le Pearl closes in the city center. A altercation would then have broken out between the young man and three occupants of a vehicle, indicates the public prosecutor, Mickaël Giraudet. After reciprocal invectives, these three men in their twenties get out of the car and one of them, armed with a knife, strikes the victim. The emergency services, quickly on the spot, fail to save her.
For their part, the three individuals fled by car, but were arrested by the PSIG (surveillance and intervention platoon of the gendarmerie). They are currently in custody and questioned for murder and complicity in murder. Two women, also present in the car, are heard as witnesses.
The prosecution would like to point out that at this stage these people benefit from the presumption of innocence. The investigation, entrusted to the Avranches Research Brigade, is continuing. The perpetrators risk up to 30 years in prison.