Sunday afternoon, 15:09 pm, at the municipal stadium Bernard Leduc in Sérifontaine, the hundred supporters present in the stands rise to applaud a minute in memory of their former striker, Jérémy Gressent, tragically disappeared in Vexin-sur-Epte (Eure). Found dead by a walker in the countryside on the evening of May 9, Jérémy Gressent was reportedly finished with a hammer after being shot three times in the head.
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"I would have preferred to stop the match but the players decided otherwise, reacts the president of the football club of Sérifontaine, David Arbiouene. In the end, they did well." Before kick-off, the manager had watched, with tears in his eye, the two best friends of Jérémy Gressent, surrounded by the 22 actors, brandishing, in the middle of the lawn, his jersey flocked with the number 9 that he wore so much.
"A jersey that will be retired until the end of the season and that will be signed by all licensees before being framed with his portrait," he says. This souvenir of Jeremy will be placed at the entrance of the club, in the same place where an urn has been set up in recent days to collect financial donations.
"A child of the club"
"The money raised will be used to buy a funeral plaque in his honour and the rest of the prize pool will be donated to the family to finance part of his funeral," says David Arbiouene. This Tuesday afternoon, the 700 euros mark had already been reached. "We hope to gather a little more before the body is handed over to his relatives."
The revelations made on Monday by Rémi Coutin, prosecutor of the prosecutor's office of Evreux, on the circumstances of the murder of the young man have chilled the inhabitants of Sérifontaine. "Throwing him like a beast into a field is inhumane," said several members of his neighborhood on Monday. An "unforgivable" gesture for David Arbiouene, who explains that he cannot turn the page. Ten days after the tragedy, the leader still does not understand how such a crime could have happened.
"Jeremy is the third member of the club that I bury in four years of presidency and the second Gressent. It's starting to get complicated," he says. Jeremy's father, Jacques, whose first name was tattooed on his forearm, died two years ago from Covid-19.
"A child of the club", Benze, 33, had always played at the club at the forefront of the Serijont attack in the same position as his idol, Karim Benzema, whose nickname he had adopted. An unconditional supporter of PSG, he was the first to come and encourage his friends at the edge of the field. His death left an entire club orphaned.
