The Bobigny Prosecutor has announced that a survey for “Voluntary Violence in Meeting” was opened at the end of March after death, on February 16, of this young man, hit by a tram in Bobigny after being struck by Young people.
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An investigation for “voluntary meeting in meeting” was opened at the end of March after the death of a young man in Bobigny, hit by a tram following violence, announced the prosecutor of Bobigny Monday, April 4, while presidential candidates question the possibly anti-Semitic nature of the facts.
On Wednesday, February 16, shortly after 8 pm, Jeremy Cohen crossed the railways when he was hit by Tramway 1 in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis). A few seconds before the tragedy, he had been struck by young people. Victim of a cardio-respiratory judgment and a cranial trauma, he succumbed soon after midnight in the hospital.
A first investigation had been opened to determine the circumstances of death. “The assumption that the victim has crossed the tramway tracks to escape his aggressors were naturally taken into account,” said the Prosecutor of the Eric Mathais Republic, in a press release on Monday. On March 29, a judicial information was opened by the head of “voluntary violence in a meeting who resulted in person without intent to give it,” continued the prosecutor.
A video shared on social networks
According to the family of the deceased, interviewed by Radio Shalom, the young man suffered from a disability not visible. His two brothers have traded on the scene and collected a video showing part of the drama, with greatly shared on social networks on Monday.
According to a police source, a video, confirming the hypothesis of an altercation between the victim and several individuals, was received on 10 March by the investigators. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of the department.
Monday, April 4, the Far right candidate in the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, given in the second round against Emmanuel Macron, questioned a tweet as to “silence on this case”, s questioning what “could be an anti-Semitic murder”. His rival Eric Zemmour spoke in four tweets. “Is he dead to flee the railles? Is he dead because Jewish? Why is this affair stifled?” He asked for.
“All the light should be made on the circumstances of Jeremy Cohen’s death, his aggression before he struck by a tram in Bobigny”, tweeted the ecologist candidate, Yannick Jadot.