Jeremie Cohen case: the two arrested suspects were indicted and remanded in custody

One is prosecuted for “willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it” and the second for “willful violence in a meeting”. Article written by Published on 04/15/2022 10:40 Updated on 04/15/2022 11:07 Reading time: 1 min. Two suspects were indicted on Friday April 15 because they are suspected of having beaten 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”, specified the prosecution. , without giving further details. At this stage of the investigations, “there is still no objective element making it possible to characterize a discriminatory motive, in particular anti-Semitic, at the origin of the violence”, 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”. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share by email Share link