One is chased for “deliberate violence resulting in death without the intention of giving it” and the second for “deliberate violence in a meeting”.
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Two suspects were indicted on Friday, April 15, for allegedly beating Jeremie Cohen, on February 16, announced the public prosecutor of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis). One is prosecuted for “willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it” and the second for “willful violence in a meeting”. They were both remanded in custody, the statement said.
The two men had presented themselves spontaneously to the police on Tuesday and had been taken into custody. The statements of the two suspects before the investigators, in particular on the “chronology of events”suggest that “the violence would be linked to the behavior of the victim, to which they would have reacted by hitting him”, said the prosecution, without giving more details. At this stage of the investigation, “there is still no objective element to characterize a discriminatory motive, in particular anti-Semitic, at the origin of the violence”has specified the prosecutor of Bobigny Eric Mathais.
Jeremie Cohen, a 31-year-old Frenchman of Jewish faith with a slight disability, was hit by a T1 line tram in Bobigny, after being the target of an assault on the other side of the river. Avenue Jean-Jaures. He was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead the next day. An investigation was opened on March 29 for “intentional violence in a meeting resulting in death without intention to give it”.