It was around 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 3, when a brawl involving at least four people broke out Place Lafayette, closed to traffic during this summer period. In front of the terrace of the La Mine brasserie and that of the art is public, at the corner of the rue de la Convention, stabbing was exchanged.
A man in his thirties, domiciled not far, would have received two. According to our information, it was affected by the posterior and the thorax level. A municipal police crew quickly went to his bedside. When they arrived on site, the firefighters found it in cardiopulmonary arrest. For an hour, then relayed by the emergency physicians, the rescuers provided him with a cardiac massage. In vain. He died of his injuries.
The brawl broke near the cafes terraces in the square.
Emma Bonniol
The man who accompanied him, a few years younger, was also injured twice by a blade, but his days are not in danger. He was transported in an emergency to the Agen hospital center. The Villeneuvois police drew a security perimeter, before the arrival of the technicians of the scientific police, then heard the witnesses.
Actively sought -after suspects
The mayor of La Bastide, Gérard Régnier, like the sub-prefect Arnaud Bourda, went to the scene of the drama. It was there that, on the evening of June 21, the deputy Guillaume Lepers received blows in the face trying to put an end to a brawl.
The crime scene was frozen by the police.
Emma Bonniol
Last night, the two alleged authors of this violent attack were on the run. Identified, they were the subject of a real hunt on the part of the police. The investigation, which starts under the leadership of the judicial police, will try to determine the reasons which led to this drama. Advanced as a probable mobile by many Villeneuvois, an account settlement linked to drugs is not the only hypothesis studied.
In the Bastide, this homicide echoes the death of the young Adam, which occurred on April 20. The outburst of violence had broken out this time less than 500 meters away. The young Livradais, 20 years old, had made his last breath on the boulevard de la Marine.
