A man was fatally stabbed overnight from Saturday to Sunday in Le Mans during a brawl on the public highway involving fifteen people, we learned from sources close to the investigation.
According to a police source, the fight broke out in a city parking lot around midnight.
When they arrived on the scene, the emergency services discovered the victim injured in the femoral artery by at least one stab wound.
Despite the urgent application of a tourniquet, the man, in his thirties but whose identity had not yet been formally established on Sunday, died, probably as a result of this haemorrhage.
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No arrest was made at the time, the protagonists of the brawl having fled when the police arrived, who gave "
priority to help the injured person
", explained a source close to the investigation. .
The circumstances and reasons for this fight remain undetermined at this stage of the investigations.
According to
Le Maine Libre
, the victim was accompanied by two friends on Saturday evening and was drinking alcohol in a parking lot in the Pontlieue district, south of the city, listening to music via a connected speaker.
“
There are often people who drink in the evening, they go out to the parking lot and it creates a mess from 9:30 p.m., 10 p.m., I have already seen fights
” described a resident of the neighborhood yesterday.
"
In the neighborhood, there is trouble because of alcohol
," says another resident, interviewed by the regional newspaper from the terrace of a café that does not serve alcohol.
The investigation was entrusted to the Sarthe Departmental Security and the Angers Judicial Police.
