A few days before the first round of the presidential election, this drama has become a political fact, widely commented on by the candidates.
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She held a press conference. The family of Jeremie Cohen, a young Jewish man who was fatally hit in mid-February by a tram after being assaulted, called on Thursday April 7 to “to be careful” in the face of assertions of an anti-Semitic motive, not established by the current investigation. “Concerning the anti-Semitic nature of this attack, the position of our family is clear : we do not know at the moment if this one is true”said her mother Evelyne Cohen, according to an extract from her press conference broadcast in particular by BFMTV.
“We want justice to be done”she continued, adding to do “completely trust” to investigators.
On Wednesday February 16, around 8 p.m., Jeremie Cohen, 31 years old and with a slight disability, was crossing the railway tracks when he was hit by the tram in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), just after being hit by young people. In cardio-respiratory arrest and victim of a head trauma, he died in hospital shortly after midnight.
A few days before the first round of the presidential election, this drama has become a political fact, widely commented on by the candidates. Jeremie Cohen “did he die because he was a Jew?”, questioned the first, Monday on Twitter, the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!). Her rival Marine Le Pen (RN) spoke of a “criminal act” who “could be an anti-Semitic murder”.
Faced with this avalanche of political reactions, the Bobigny prosecutor Eric Mathais spoke on Tuesday and declared that the investigation did not allow, at this stage, to establish “discriminatory grounds” in the death of the young man.