Two men, 22 and 23, suspected of having brutally beaten a bus driver in Bayonne on Sunday, who have since been brain-dead, were charged with attempted murder and imprisoned. As announced by the prosecution, this Wednesday, July 8, two other men, in their thirties, were indicted, one for " removal of the criminal from arrest and search and failure to assist anyone in danger " and the second, for " failure to assist a person in danger ".
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After being presented to the investigating judge, the four men were placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution which announced Tuesday the opening of a judicial investigation. The attack on Philippe Monguillot, a 59-year-old driver, aroused strong emotion among his colleagues who exercised their right of withdrawal Monday morning and assured that they would not resume work " before the funeral ".
A planned white march will start from the place of the drama
In the words of the deputy public prosecutor of Bayonne, Marc Mariée, the driver was the victim of an assault " of extreme violence " when he wanted to control the ticket of one of the defendants and demanded the port mask for the other three. " The insults flare up then there is a stampede. The driver is pushed out of the bus. There, two of the individuals gave him violent kicks and punches in the upper part of the body and in particular towards his head, "the magistrate said on Tuesday at a press conference.
The four men left the driver " unconscious on the sidewalk " before fleeing to " take refuge in the apartment of one of them ". At the request of the driver's family, married and father of three girls aged 18, 21 and 24, a white march will start from the scene of the tragedy, the " Balichon " bus stop at 7:30 p.m. The country's transport networks are called by an intersyndicale to stop for a minute of silence.
" When we go see him, we talk to him, he's still there, we're trying to hang on. But we haven't asked ourselves the right questions yet. It is not my father who breathes, it is the machine. We know it's over, ”testified to the Sud Ouest newspaper , one of her daughters, Marie Monguillot, 18.