They are 15 and 16 years old and come from Choisy-le-Roi, in Val-de-Marne. Four minors were indicted on Wednesday January 18 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 on Monday of a 16-year-old youth in Thiais (Val-de- Marne), announced the parquet floor of Créteil.
These teenagers 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”said the prosecution on Tuesday.
A 16-year-old teenager named Tidiane died on Monday, a few hundred meters from the Guillaume-Apollinaire high school, where he was educated, after being stabbed near the heart. A second of the same age was seriously injured in the thigh, without his vital prognosis being engaged. The first elements of the investigation had focused on a rivalry between two bands from Choisy-le-Roi and Thiais, two neighboring towns in Val-de-Marne, between which tension had been rising for ten days.
“Band Phenomenon”
“The circumstances of the attack, the modus operandi and the personality of the suspects lead us to hypothesize that the facts were committed within the framework of what is called a “gang phenomenon” opposing young people from different neighborhoods », said the Créteil prosecutor on Monday. The victims were both from the Grignon district, in Thiais, and educated at the Guillaume-Apollinaire high school.
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 aggression could be the reason for the attack 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.
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.
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.