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Man has chin bitten off by stranger after refusing to give him a cigarette
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Man has chin bitten off by stranger after refusing to give him a cigarette Police said the victim was found bleeding from his chin after being attacked at a bus stop in Avignon, southern France when he refused to give a man a cigarette A man had his chin bitten off in a horror attack after refusing to give a stranger a cigarette. Police said they found the victim bleeding from a 4cm (1.5in) wound across his chin while responding to the incident at a bus stop in Avignon, France at 8.20am on...
Man has chin bitten off by stranger after refusing to give him a cigarette
Police said the victim was found bleeding from his chin after being attacked at a bus stop in Avignon, southern France when he refused to give a man a cigarette
A man had his chin bitten off in a horror attack after refusing to give a stranger a cigarette.
Police said they found the victim bleeding from a 4cm (1.5in) wound across his chin while responding to the incident at a bus stop in Avignon, France at 8.20am on Saturday.
All three men at the scene were taken to the police station.
There, the victim filed a complaint, claiming that the two men approached him and asked for a cigarette.
When he refused, one of the men is said to have become aggressive and bit him on the face, tearing away a chunk of his chin.
CCTV footage showed the other man standing in the background as the assailant launched into the attack.
Both men were arrested, and it was later revealed that one of the suspects was already under an OQTF - an official order to leave French territory.
The other is Somali national with legal residency status, police said.
Both men are set to appear before a judge on June 25, 2027.
Last year, a 41-year-old man in the US was given life-changing surgery after having his nose bitten off while stepping in to stop a young woman being harassed.
Tyson Carter, 41, was beaten by two men at a bus stop in Brentwood, New York before one of them launched into the vicious attack, leaving him with much of his nose missing.
Less than a week later, doctors at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre reconstructed Carter's nose with clay of skin grafts from his forehead and tissue from his arm.
The team used a 3D model based off selfies and pictures of Carter before carrying out the procedure.
"For me, the biggest issue was more the fact that I need my glasses to see and, with so much of it being gone, I couldn't wear them", Mr Carter said after his surgery.