Investigations opened after the deaths of two men on public roads in Paris on the weekend of October 17, on the fringes of violence in the capital

Justice is looking into two deaths which raised questions, on the sidelines of the violence which accompanied the mobilization of October 17 in Paris. Two investigations were opened to investigate the causes of the death of two men on the first Saturday, and the second during the night from Sunday to Monday, both probably following illness, the Paris prosecutor's office and the police headquarters confirmed on Tuesday, October 20. These deaths "occurred on public roads", but "without any third party responsibility being suspected at this stage", they specify.

“Monday at 1:10 a.m., rue Berger”, in the Halles district, a 48-year-old man died on the public highway despite the rapid intervention of firefighters, details the police headquarters. This area of ​​the capital is one of those where violence and looting took place that evening, for the second night in a row. It is one of the sectors affected by the curfew introduced on Monday.

On Saturday evening, the Paris prosecutor's office had already been notified "of the death of a man on rue du Château-d'Eau (...) as a result of probable illness", the prosecutor's office told AFP. This artery starts from Place de la République, the starting point of the Parisian demonstration of the October 17 movement, and where clashes took place between demonstrators and the police.

The Paris prefecture specifies that firefighters were called at 6:20 p.m. about "a 59-year-old man unconscious on the public road at the corner of rue de Lancry and boulevard Magenta", at one of the corners of Place de la République. “Given the degraded security conditions in the surrounding area, the victim was moved to the Château-d’Eau rescue center where she died at 6:55 p.m. despite emergency services.”