Two brothers in their twenties were seriously injured in Brignais (Rhône) after being struck by a car following an altercation over a mask thrown to the ground.
On August 23, two brothers in their twenties were deliberately run over on August 21 by a man driving his car reports Progress. On leaving the tobacco shop in Brignais (Rhône), a town near Lyon, a man having thrown his mask to the ground had to face the reproaches of two young people.
As the two brothers walked home, the obviously displeased man came back to them behind the wheel of his car and ran them over before fleeing.
The two young men, seriously injured, were rescued by the firefighters still according to progress. Their vital prognosis would not be engaged.
The suspect would have been identified and would be “actively sought” by the Brignais gendarmerie in charge of the investigation according to the regional daily.
“A criminal act”
“An act of such violence is dramatic and appalling, to rush with a car on people is a criminal act”, estimated Serge Bérard, mayor of the city in comments reported by Progress.
An act of such violence is dramatic and appalling, to run a car into people is a criminal act.
This news item is part of a series of violence that arose around the obligation to wear a mask. On August 16, a 43-year-old man stabbed twice, including one in the eye, at a security guard of a bar in the city center of Brest (Finistère), after being turned away for lack of a mask.
A few days earlier, the assault of a nurse, beaten up by teenagers for asking them to wear a mask on a bus in Seine-Saint-Denis in the Paris suburbs had aroused a stir.
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