He had brought pepper spray to "protect himself".
But it was the wheels of his car that went over his friend and associate three times.
The driver of the BMW who ran over a man in Vitry on Thursday following a trade dispute was presented this weekend to a magistrate at the Créteil court and placed in pre-trial detention.
Until then, he was unknown to the police.
A judicial investigation was opened for attempted voluntary homicide in this case entrusted by the prosecution to the police officers of the Vitry police station.
They had created a company together
Investigations which have made it possible to establish that what binds these two men who met on rue Charles-Heller on Friday is a "long-standing" friendship and the creation of a company at the end of last year in Paris , a store for the sale of sports food products.
It is she and more generally their professional relationship which is at the heart of the muscular exchange they had in front of several people who were in the sector this Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon and which totally degenerated.
A third man witnessed the scene
Witnesses who said they saw a third man witnessing the facts.
A friend of the respondent came to "accompany" him for this meeting he dreaded, in any case what he explained to the police at the Vitry police station.
And who therefore witnessed this incredible stroke of blood?
Literally and figuratively, since the victim escaped with serious injuries: skin dermabrasions, head trauma and partial amnesia.
Rue Heller, Vitry.
It was in this area that a man was struck by his partner on Friday afternoon.
LP / FD
Released from the hospital, the man who had ten days of ITT confirmed that the dispute was over their joint venture, and more specifically that he suspected his partner of being responsible for illegal activities.
When they find themselves in the Ardoines activity zone, the discussion quickly turns to the exchange of blows.
Then the driver of the BMW gauzes his partner before getting back into his car to run into him.
The partially filmed scene
By "fear" and by "stress", "to scare him" and because he felt "humiliated".
Following which he left the victim for dead before decamping with the friend who was accompanying him, leaving the car in the parking lot of a supermarket in Bonneuil and being escorted home by the same friend.
Where he was finally arrested by a crew of the territorial anti-crime squad, quickly evoking this "commercial dispute" with the police.
Newsletter Val-de-Marne
Every morning, the news of your department seen by Le Parisien
I'm registering
Your email address is collected by Le Parisien to enable you to receive our news and commercial offers.
Learn more
A witness to the scene told of having perceived the "hatred" of the latter who, because of his maneuver, threw the victim several meters without stopping.
The scene was partially filmed by the CCTV camera of an industry company.
The third man, identified, spontaneously contacted the police the day after the incident.
He ultimately did not comply with the summons sent to him.