The video, of great violence, had made the rounds of social networks. It showed a young man who was hit, then fled between two cars to escape his assailants in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), before the terrible outcome: he was hit head-on by a tram. Jérémie Cohen, 31, will not be able to recover from the shock on February 16, 2022. Taken to hospital, he dies there shortly after midnight.
When his parents come to recognize the body, they see his face covered with a large bandage. The SAMU team gives them a bag with their clothes and in particular their yarmulke. Jérémie was of the Jewish faith, from a practicing family. He usually wore his yarmulke in public places.
Ithe errors of the beginnings of the investigation
The event is first, wrongly, considered as a public road accident. The case could have ended there: a young man crossed recklessly. But the tenacity of his family, in particular that of his brothers, will reverse the legal course: Jérémie, they will show it, was indeed on the run at the time of the impact. “My brother was violently beaten before the accident”explains
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