Philippe did not survive his injuries… On the night of April 15 to 16, the young man was brutally attacked in Grande-Synthe, in the North. It was around 2 o’clock, in front of the Noordover high school, when three men armed with baseball bats and an ax violently attacked him.
According to initial information, the 23-year-old young man was dragged to the parking lot behind the Carrefour Contact where he was left for dead. Showing several marks of blows, he was rushed to Dunkerque hospital in Lille. His vital prognosis is then compromised. Placed in intensive care, Philippe succumbed to his injuries this Tuesday, April 16.
Philippe, victim of an ambush on a dating site
According to information from The voice of the North, the victim would have fallen into an ambush via a dating site. Philippe would not be the first to be the target of these nocturnal meetings to lure « pigeons » to extort them. According to our colleagues, other attacks of this type have recently been reported. The most recent was this Saturday, in the same city. For now, the three suspects are being sought. The investigation for “attempted intentional homicide by an organized gang” has been requalified “in organized gang murder”. This will determine whether the series of attacks was committed by the same gang.
She was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the organized and specialized crime division of the interdepartmental judicial police service of the Nord department. The day after this tragedy, an online fundraiser was opened to help his family finance his funeral. “Philippe was a young man of 23 years old. He worked in a socio-educational center. He was honest, generous, full of life, always smiling and ready to help others,” can we read in tribute to the victim.
2024-04-17 09:33:48
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