A 35-year-old Frenchman was fatally injured during the night from Friday to Saturday following a brawl in a nightclub in Luxembourg, and a suspect was arrested and imprisoned, the Grand Duchy’s justice system said this Sunday.
The suspect is a 57-year-old security guard who was charged in particular with “intentional assault and battery leading to death”, as part of the investigation entrusted to an investigating judge, the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Luxembourg.
The investigation continues
The events occurred on Saturday around 3:00 a.m. in a nightclub in Pétange, in the southwest of Luxembourg, not far from the Belgian and French borders. Following “a confrontation” with this security agent, the victim “fell to the ground, head first, and was seriously injured”. “Despite intensive medical care, the 35-year-old man died shortly afterwards,” continues the prosecution.
The suspect, arrested on Saturday, was presented to the investigating judge who charged him and decided to place him in preventive detention at the Sanem Prison Center.
According to the local press, the victim is from Longuyon, in the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, and he was celebrating the end of year holidays with colleagues and friends when the tragedy occurred.
The investigation is continuing and the judicial police are still looking for any useful information on the circumstances of the fight, the Luxembourg public prosecutor’s office said.