Four held in France after man beaten to death over game consoles


Four people in France, including a teen, were accused of beating a man to death, believing he had stolen their video game consoles. — Bloomberg

Four people, including a 15-year-old boy, were on Tuesday charged for beating a man to death over his alleged theft of video game consoles, a French prosecutor said.

The alarm was raised over the weekend by the mother of the 31-year-old victim, named as John, after she couldn't contact him at his home, according to Michel Garrandaux, public prosecutor in the centre-west town of Poitiers.

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