a second man in custody, a third suspect wanted

A second man was taken into custody, two days after the broadcast of a video showing the passengers of a car dragging pedestrians several meters to force them to run on Sunday evening in Noisy-le-Sec in Seine-Saint -Denis, learned franceinfo Tuesday, January 11 from a police source. The Bobigny prosecutor’s office confirmed this information at midday on Tuesday in a press release. The facts go back to Saturday and Sunday evening, according to the first elements of the investigation.

The suspect went to the city police station on his own at dawn on Tuesday (around 5.15 a.m.) and claims to be the author of the video. He also says he posted it on social networks. Monday afternoon, a first man was taken into custody in this case. He was quickly identified by the local police thanks to the video, who arranged to meet him late Monday afternoon in a parking lot and arrested him, specifies the prosecution. A third suspect is still wanted.

Monday, a first complaint was filed by a 64-year-old man who “explained that, on the evening of January 8 to 9, 2022 [soit samedi soir], the authors asked him for a cigarette. When he was reaching out to the driver, the latter grabbed him by the arm, held him by force, and started by accelerating, as shown by the video broadcast “. This man ended up falling and suffering from “fracture in the shoulder and foot and must be the subject of a medical examination before the medico-judicial units [ce mardi] to determine total incapacity for work “, specifies the parquet floor. The public prosecutor of Bobigny Éric Mathais also confirms that a second victim has lodged a complaint. This is’“a young woman who did not appear on the broadcast footage”. She introduced herself “on the night of January 10 to 11, 2022 to file a complaint of similar facts that she said she suffered on January 9”, Sunday evening, indicates the prosecutor in a press release. The public prosecutor adds that another victim appearing in the video, remains to this day unidentified.

An investigation was opened after the reporting of this video, entitled “laughter of the evening”, on the Pharos platform. It shows hilarious passengers in a car holding the arms of two pedestrians out the window of their moving vehicle to force them to run, before letting them go and knocking them onto the roadway. “Investigations are continuing to identify all the passengers in the vehicle, use the cell phone with which the video was made and find other possible victims”, concludes the prosecutor.