all suspects in police custody for “murder” of a 15-year-old boy

The investigation into the death of a 15-year-old teenager, stabbed to death on Tuesday in Romans-sur-Isère while interposing in an altercation, was reclassified as “premeditated murder” after being placed in custody on sight Thursday April 11 of a father and his two sons. The father, suspected of having organized a “shipping” at the origin of the tragedy, and his minor son went to the police in the evening, Valence prosecutor Laurent de Caigny said in a press release.

A few hours earlier, another son, aged 27 and suspected of being the author of the fatal stabbing, had also presented himself to the police, which brings the number in custody to four, one man suspected of having helped them flee having been arrested the day before. “All the suspects” are “now arrested” and the investigation, first opened for “voluntary homicide”continues “under the qualification of assassination, that is to say, murder with premeditation, a crime punishable by life imprisonment”said the prosecutor.

According to his press release, the father is suspected of having organized “his family’s expedition” in the sensitive district of La Monnaie, looking for a minor with whom his youngest son “had a violent and filmed dispute” Few days ago. “He is suspected of having driven there with the first person in custody, his two sons”, explained Laurent de Caigny. Once their target was located, the father encouraged his younger brother to “to correct”which triggered “an altercation with exchanges of blows”.

Tuesday evening, a 15-year-old teenager, Zakaria, was stabbed during a “altercation” in the sensitive Monnaie district, in Romans. Transferred to hospital, his death was pronounced around 11:15 p.m., the prosecutor declared the day before. According to the first elements of the investigation, reported by de Caigny, “several members of the same family” from another district of Romans had come by car to look for a person with whom, a few days earlier, they had “a violent dispute”. They had provoked an altercation in which the minor, simple “witness” according to de Caigny, had tried to intervene. On Wednesday morning, a person, suspected of having led them to La Monnaie, was arrested.

The death of Thomas in Crépol still in people’s minds

An autopsy is planned for Thursday to try to clarify the course of the events. An investigation was first opened to “voluntary homicide” before being reclassified as “premeditated murder” by the floor. It was entrusted to the organized crime department of the Drôme judicial police.

The La Monnaie district found itself in the spotlight following the death of Thomas, a 16-year-old high school student who was fatally injured in November at the end of a village ball in Crépol (Drôme). The investigation did not make it possible to identify the author of the stabbing which killed the high school student. Some of those indicted for “voluntary homicide by an organized gang” are from the city of La Monnaie. The tragedy aroused strong emotion in the region and mobilized the ultra-right on the theme of security, sensitive neighborhoods and immigration.