During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the two victims, who were traveling in a van after spending the evening together, were intercepted by a car.
At the wheel of the latter, a 50-year-old man already convicted of traffic offenses in 2012 and 2016. He would have taken his car to chase the van after hearing “honking” near his home.
A fortnight earlier, this man had already had a first altercation with the victims over a parking matter.
And since then, the tension had increased a notch.
The surviving victim admitted that his friend had honked near the shed and caravan where the two brothers lived outside the town, before continuing on his way.
A death of “traumatic origin”
But once he caught up with the van, the driver of the car with his brother allegedly “hit with punches and a baseball bat” at the two occupants of the van, the prosecutor said.
The autopsy confirmed a death of “traumatic origin” including several fractures or wounds to the face and skull due to blows from a bat, according to the magistrate.
The second person in the van, a 38-year-old man, survived the beating.
Hospitalized, he benefited from a ten-day ITT, according to the prosecutor.
The deceased “was 30 years old.
He was a person very involved in community life, a young father who was going to become a father again in a few weeks,” lamented the mayor of Saint-Thurial, David Moizan.
A white march in memory of the victim is planned for Saturday morning in Saint-Thurial.
The town is “overwhelmed by this unjustifiable act”, confided the mayor.
The two brothers who were arrested on Sunday afternoon were indicted for “murder” and “violence with weapons and in meetings”.
They were remanded in custody on Tuesday evening.
They face a sentence of 30 years of criminal imprisonment, declared the public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc.