Overview
- The Ajaccio prosecutor announced on Friday that two 17-year-old girls have been formally placed under investigation for failure to assist a person in danger, theft from a vulnerable person and dissemination of images.
- A young adult has also been placed under investigation for having struck the victim during an incident on cours Napoléon on the night of July 3–4.
- Investigators say the victim called police before he was hit, was left inanimate on the ground, and that his cash was taken and photos of his incapacitated state were shared on social media.
- Prosecutor Nicolas Septe corrected earlier reports that called the event a brawl and said the blow did not follow a rixe; a third person was questioned this week and released without charge.
- The formal step of mise en examen opens a deeper judicial probe rather than a conviction, and the case raises legal and social questions about juvenile liability and the circulation of images of a vulnerable victim as the inquiry continues.