VIDEO – Montauban: what we know about the fatal assault of a former soldier – LCI

The scene took place on Friday, October 29 in a parking lot in Montauban, in Tarn-et-Garonne, at the exit of the bar-restaurant Le Nautic, between midnight and one in the morning. Emmanuel Cueff, a 50-year-old resident, a former army paratrooper, was attacked by one or more individuals, punched in the face and severely beaten, during a brawl with still unclear circumstances.

According to his partner, someone punched and kicked him. Collapsing to the ground, his head allegedly hit the sidewalk. Transported in a state of brain death to the Toulouse University Hospital, the father of the family died on Sunday evening.

His wife, who accompanied him, was also beaten during the altercation, but was reportedly only slightly injured. According to the owner of the restaurant, who did not wish to speak in front of the TF1 cameras, the couple had only stayed inside for about fifteen minutes before coming out. A version confirmed by the images of the video surveillance of the restaurant.

No camera, however, in the parking lot, which makes it difficult to identify the attackers, who fled when the police arrived. Only the first testimonies collected on the spot made it possible to specify the mysterious circumstances of this attack. Witnesses evoke a first argument inside the establishment, before the couple was taken to task in the parking lot.

In the village, the inhabitants are dismayed after the tragedy. “It’s a bit shocking, we tell ourselves that when we go out, we don’t really know what can happen to us”, slips a motorist into the subject in the header. “We don’t have the words, it’s terrible”, launches a passerby.

This former member of the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment from Montauban had fought in Africa and the Balkans. “I was also a soldier, I was in these same regiments, explains a passerby. He defended the country, it’s still serious. ” Very popular in the city, Emmanuel Cueff had been converted into the construction industry for eight years, according to Release.

On Twitter, the friendly of the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment paid tribute to the former soldier by announcing his death on Monday, November 1. “It is with great sadness that we learn of the assault on Friday evening in Montauban and then the death this evening of Master Corporal Emmanuel Cueff, former CA of the 17th RGP at the age of 50, she wrote. May Saint Michael welcome him and protect his family. “

A online jackpot, presented as a fund to come to the aid of Emmanuel Cueff’s companion and his two children, gathered Tuesday evening November 2 nearly 12,400 euros. The attacker (s) are still on the run. An investigation was opened to try to elucidate the circumstances of the tragedy, and the Toulouse regional judicial police service took up the case. The prosecutor told TF1 that a lot of information had to be analyzed.