2024-08-19 15:29:11
The “unspoken” attack of Mayor Julien Dubois condemned “severely”. Emotion is still present in Dax (Landes), after the violence that occurred on the sidelines of the Feria. Saturday, around 4:30 am in the complex Francis Planté, a violent dispute “between a group of pedestrians and the drivers of a Renault Clio car” said this Monday in 20 minutes Benoit Fontaine, public prosecutor of Dax.
The car left the scene, “and came back with a second VW Golf type. » Those in these two cars, “whose number remains to be determined, most dressed in black clothes and some with their faces hidden”, then committed violence “on the four victims with a 17-year-old boy, two men in their twenties and one man in his fifties, all belonging to the same group not from the Landes ».
Call for witnesses
The condition of the first victim, who was left lifeless on the ground and placed on Saturday in an artificial coma with a life-threatening prognosis, “is at the moment stable, with an ongoing level of progress” indicates the public prosecutor. His total incapacity for work “is set at twenty days,” he added.
One of the criminals, from Landes, who is 20 years old and without a criminal record, was arrested by the police on the spot. He was presented on Sunday before the investigative judge Dax and charged with aggravated violence by three conditions and placed in pre-trial detention at the Mont-de-Marsan prison. Other criminals have managed to escape. “Any new evidence on this case can be obtained at the Dax police station,” specified the general prosecutor. The functional impairments of the other three victims, not the hospital, “are determined. »
Up to 800,000 people
The popular festival of the South-West, Feria de Dax which combines local bars, music and bull shows, brings together up to 800,000 people, dressed in red and white, for five days in mid-August. More than 270 policemen and gendarmes were mobilized every day to secure the event that ended on Sunday.
This is not the first case of violence against cultural festival groups in the South-West this summer. On July 11, a 58-year-old man was seriously injured during the Bayonne Festival after an argument in the Place des Basques. He died a few days later from his injuries. Last year, the Bayonne festival was already mourned by the death of a forty-year-old boy, the victim of a fatal attack.
In a press release, the city of Bayonne “resolutely condemns this violence, and all other manifestations and manifestations of violence that may occur, and this, in complete opposition to what is the spirit and identity of the Holidays come. »
The attack was carried out “outside the area of festivities” specified the Mayor of Dax
Contact via 20 minutesThe mayor of Dax Julien Dubois condemned this attack “severely” but he emphasized that “the general results are positive” and that “we have had very few problematic incidents because the safety and rescue system put in place made it possible to avoid , in many of us, this type of aggression, even if we accept that it is just one too early. » The designated staff presents in particular “a work order post which allows us to coordinate security, transport, rescue, 24 hours a day, with all the specialists. » The mayor also explained that the attack took place “outside the area of the celebrations while the establishments were closed and the activities were finished, which does not prevent us from condemning and hoping that we see all the attacks. »
“The spirit of the Dax holidays is not that, and this event does not describe what happened during five days and five nights” emphasized the elected official, who added that “the emergency services of the services on the ground make it possible to handle quickly. care of the victim’s hospital in Dax. »“ Unfortunately, this kind of event also takes place in other cities, where there are no celebrations. »
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