A 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death on Wednesday evening on the metro platform in Saint-Denis, during a brawl between several people, we learned from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office and sources. police officers.
The events took place early in the evening in the Basilique de Saint-Denis station on line 13 of the Paris metro, according to the same sources. The young man was seriously injured before dying, despite cardiac massage carried out by firefighters. At this stage of the investigation, there have been no arrests, indicates a police source.
“There has been great tension in the city since Friday where we have seen numerous brawls between neighborhoods,” the mayor (PS) of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin told AFP. Wednesday morning, “several people came to beat up a young person next to a high school with various blunt tools,” said the councilor. “I expressed my condolences to the mother at this terrible moment,” he added.
Police device around the station
Around 8:00 p.m., firefighters tried to resuscitate the victim in the metro station which was briefly closed, noted an AFP journalist. A large police force was deployed around the station.
“Dying at 14 is already a tragedy in itself, dying during a brawl which often degenerates from minor reasons adds to the drama,” wrote LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Eric Coquerel on X (ex-Twitter ). “We must continue this prevention work, particularly with specialized associations. This is a major subject that must not be overlooked, from which our working-class cities are suffering,” continued the elected official.
According to sociologist Marwan Mohammed, who devoted a book to it, violent inter-district rivalries, “a cyclical phenomenon”, have caused “at least 120 deaths” in France over the last thirty years.