In Saint-Brieuc, the young man killed for insults – the telegram

On Saturday January 1, 2022, in the early morning, a 26 year old young man has died in the Mirage residence, located on boulevard Vauban, in Saint-Brieuc. It was 4:35 am when the alert was given to the police for a person found injured in the common areas. The victim, living in Ploufragan (22), could not be resuscitated and died at 5.30 a.m. from a stab wound to the heart.

The stabbing was carried “following a brawl between alcoholic people”, indicates the prosecution. The young man and his companion had been invited for Christmas Eve in an apartment located on the 3rd floor of the building. On the spot, the participants consumed alcohol and drugs, before the evening degenerated and an altercation arose between the couple, the tenant of the apartment, 29 years old and a guest, 21 years old. A brawl during which “the organizer of the evening punched the victim, who replied with kicks,” said the press release. The second individual, after fetching a knife, allegedly struck the victim with it before throwing the weapon into the garbage chute. The couple finally managed to get out of the apartment, but the man collapsed between the 3rd and 4th floors of the building.

21-year-old admits the facts

The guest and the tenant of the apartment were taken into police custody on Saturday evening, both drunk, as part of the investigation conducted by the Saint-Brieuc police station and the territorial management of the Rennes judicial police. While the first, with a clean criminal record, “admitted from his first hearing” to having carried the knife after “insults that the victim had formulated against his mother”, the second explained to be “in the process of to sleep at the time of the facts and not to have committed any violence ”. “His criminal record bears traces of seven convictions for traffic offenses, theft and infringement of the legislation on narcotics”, specifies the prosecution.

On Sunday evening, the suspects were indicted on counts of murder and aiding and abetting murder and remanded in custody.