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Marseille Marine Firefighter Beaten Outside Vitrolles Home as Prognosis Improves

Police have opened a group-violence inquiry to identify the assailants.

Overview

  • The 33-year-old was found critically injured outside his house on Saturday evening and was hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Doctors now say his life is no longer at risk, though they fear significant neurological aftereffects.
  • The episode reportedly began when a group threw stones and pine cones at his home, prompting him to go outside to intervene.
  • Witnesses described several youths at the scene who mentioned a misunderstanding before fleeing, and no arrests have been reported.
  • The Aix-en-Provence prosecutor has tasked Marseille’s territorial crime division with the probe after neighbors alerted emergency services.