Deadly assault He did not survive his injuries
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An 88-year-old man has died. on Friday night at Saturday to his injuries after a violent attack on Monday in his basement Bezons (Val-d’Oise), for which two neighbors were arrested, said to AFP a police source.
Around 7 p.m. Monday, the octogenarian goes down to the cellar of his building. Not seeing him return, his wife goes there. his turn an hour later. In the basement, she first meets a neighbor sitting on a sofa, who tells her that he has not seen her husband. But “in the second common room, she finds her husband on the floor, his head bleeding, unconscious” related the police source.
Two arrests
Initially considered by the emergency services as an accidental fall, the case arouses the doubts of the police and is entrusted on Wednesday to investigators from the judicial police of Val-d’Oise . In the process, they arrested two brothers living in the building with their mother, one of whom was the individual present in the cellar at the time of the discovery.
If one of the brothers has been hospitalized ex officio, the other, a 30-year-old man with an “ultraviolent profile” and known to the police, ended up confessing. It has been indicted on Friday and locked up. Having received a “successful beating”, according to the police source, the victim died four days later at the police station. Argenteuil hospital. The exact motive for the assault remains unclear.