Half an hour after the final whistle of the World Cup semi-final, a white car drives through the Paillade district, with on board a driver showing a flag of France and famous or “brags“, according to several witnesses questioned by the investigators.
At this moment, individuals approach the vehicle stopped at a crossroads, in the Louisville sector, and some are trying to steal his piece of tricolor fabric, again according to the first elements collected by the police.
Panicked, the driver starts with a bang, turns around while accelerating, and then mows down two young boys before fleeing. A terrifying scene, filmed by several individuals, which quickly circulated on social networks.
We see a first victim get up unscathed, after the hood hits his body. Then we see a young man, fourteen years old, lying on the asphalt, unconscious.
The teenager had a major head wound and was in cardiac arrest when the firefighters went to the scene, secured by the police, to provide him with first aid before taking him to Lapeyronie hospital.
The Hérault prefecture finally announced his death, late in the evening. The prefect transmitted his thoughts to the fault and to the relatives.
The police on their side are actively looking for the driver, who abandoned his vehicle a few hundred meters away. He was taken to the pound, with all the necessary precautions in order to be able to take fingerprints, in particular.