“He was a great guy”: after the death of boxer Wilfried Florentin, his relatives in shock

“He was just a shooting star in boxing, what a waste…” The voice of John Dovi, former manager of the French amateur boxing team, betrays his deep emotion. Wilfried Florentin, 23, father of two children (2 years and 6 months) was to play his 4th professional fight on May 28 in Créteil (Val-de-Marne). But the boxer from the Haie-Griselle district in Boissy-Saint-Léger (Val-de-Marne) was killed after receiving several bullets this Sunday morning in front of the Unusual, a shisha bar in Bonneuil-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) where he was employed as an evening organizer. His alleged attacker, a 35-year-old man, was arrested on Monday in Belgium, at Brussels airport.

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