“I asked him to put on his mask, he refused. The tone has risen. " A simple different on the wearing of the mask which would have earned Augustin M., 44, to be beaten with baseball bats by several men in a laundromat located in the Lidl parking lot in Soisy-sous-Montmorency ( Val-d'Oise) Sunday shortly before 5 p.m.
This father filed a complaint on Monday for "aggravated violence followed by incapacity not exceeding 8 days". He explains that after having arrested a laundry user who was not wearing his mask, an argument broke out. The man would then have left the laundry before returning accompanied by another person. “They tried to intimidate me,” Augustin explains.
It was in the third passage that the assault took place. “I was alone in the laundry and this time, two other men joined them, continues the father. They beat me up with baseball bats and I fell to the ground, remembers the father. They kept beating me while I was on the ground and I passed out for a few minutes. ” The extremely violent scene was filmed.
"My children are traumatized"
"I could have died!" launches Augustin M. It is the firefighters and the Samu who intervened on the spot and took him to the emergency room of the Simone-Veil hospital in Eaubonne. The medical examination revealed a "head trauma with wound", a "dorsal contusion" on the left elbow and a "contusion as well as a dorsal face hematoma" on the right forearm. No post-traumatic injury was discovered by the cranial CT scan. In total, six days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT).
If he is still in shock, it is for his children that Augustin M. is worried today. "They saw me bleeding on the ground," said this father moved. They are only 5 and 7 years old and they are traumatized, the older one didn't sleep last night and the younger one is crying. "
A climate of insecurity denounced by some residents
"It's a little worrying to think that we could be witnesses of that", said on Monday Ruth, 24, who runs a machine in the laundry. The young woman who lives in the neighborhood says she has witnessed several clashes in this parking lot in the Mirabeau district.
“For three years, the situation has deteriorated anyway, says a neighboring trader. It is mainly young people who fight between rival gangs. We pay attention. ” A feeling that is not shared by another trader: “I don't feel insecure,” he says. In all, there have been two or three fights in the last three years. "
For the town hall, no major concerns. "We cannot say that the situation has deteriorated in this district," says one to the town hall. There has always been a rivalry between the young people of Mont d'Eaubonne and Noyer Crapauds (two neighborhoods nearby) but the situation has calmed down more recently. ”
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For the town hall, this relative appeasement can be explained by the increase in the staff of the municipal police, which “went from 7 to 17 agents” and the “reestablishment of the night brigades”.