Death of Jérémie Cohen: two people taken into police custody

BFM TV INFO. The young man died on February 17 in Bobigny, hit by a tram after being attacked. The two individuals, aged 23 and 27, surrendered on Tuesday. Two people are in police custody in the investigation into the death, on February 17, of Jérémie Cohen, hit by a tram in Bobigny after being attacked by a group of individuals, report concordant sources to BFMTV. The two individuals, aged 23 and 27, surrendered on their own on Tuesday. According to our information, the Bobigny prosecutor’s office extended their custody on Wednesday. According to initial findings, the investigators seemed to be moving towards the hypothesis that Jérémie Cohen was trying to flee from his attackers when he was hit head-on by the tram. resulting in death” continues, led by the judicial police of Saine-Saint-Denis. The “anti-Semitic motive” still in question During a press conference on April 5, the prosecutor of Bobigny, Eric Mathais, announced that the investigators tried to clarify the circumstances of the tragedy, and to see if the aggression of Jérémie Cohen, of Jewish faith, was motivated by an anti-Semitic motive. “For the moment, it does not appear from the testimonies that the aggression was committed for discriminatory grounds”, he said, also appealing for witnesses. Last Thursday, Fanny Cohen, the mother of the victim, announced at a press conference that the family was going to file a complaint after the broadcast on social networks of a video of her son’s assault. This had been published without her consent, she specified. Cécile Ollivier with Elisa Fernandez