Four minors were indicted on Wednesday for intentional homicide in an organized gang and attempted intentional homicide in an organized gang for their participation in the brawl which cost the life of a 16-year-old youngster in Thiais (Val-de-Marne) on Monday. , said the parquet floor of Créteil. These teenagers, from Choisy-le-Roi and aged 15 and 16, were then placed in pre-trial detention by a judge of freedoms and detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution.
Two of them “are designated either by witnesses or by the injured victim, as being the perpetrators of the stab wounds on the two victims”, the prosecution said on Tuesday. One of these shots, fatal, hit the young Tidiane near the heart. The other was brought to the level of the thigh of another victim, whose life is not in danger. Two knives were found by investigators near the crime scene.
Rivalry between two cities
This violent attack, Monday morning in front of the Guillaume Apollinaire high school in Thiais, took place in a context of rivalry between two cities of Thiais and Choisy-le-Roi, two neighboring towns in Val-de-Marne, south of Paris .
According to a source close to the case, the brother of one of the indicted was beaten at the beginning of the month during a brawl. This attack could be the reason for the brawl on Monday, which would be revenge.
One of the four young people imprisoned on Wednesday evening is notably known to justice for a series of acts of aggravated violence which earned him an indictment in a separate case, dating from 2021. He was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on surrender in Thiais.
White March on Saturday
A white march in tribute to the young Tidiane will be organized on Saturday. The latter was unknown to justice, said Monday the prosecutor of Créteil, Stéphane Hardouin.
The Paris region is the regular scene of sometimes very violent confrontations between young people from rival neighborhoods or cities, even if the origin of these rivalries often remains unclear.
In Paris and in the neighboring departments of the inner suburbs, the authorities have recorded at least three dead and 279 injured during clashes between gangs in 2022.