The police custody of the five people arrested as part of the investigation into the death of a teenager beaten on Thursday in Viry-Châtillon (Essonne) was extended this Saturday for twenty-four hours, announced the public prosecutor’s office. Evry.
“The five police custody periods have been extended,” said prosecutor Grégoire Dulin in a press release.
Emotion in the country
Thursday evening, near the college where he was a third-year student, Shemseddine (read Shemseddine) was beaten up by masked and gloved individuals. Treated by emergency services, he died late Friday afternoon. Shortly after, a first 17-year-old boy was arrested and taken into police custody. Two other 17-year-olds, a 15-year-old girl and a 20-year-old adult were killed a little later in turn.
The death, four days after another violent attack against a schoolgirl in Montpellier, caused turmoil in the country, right up to the top of the state.
“The entire nation is in mourning,” Education Minister Nicole Belloubet wrote on X on Friday. “We will be intractable against any form of violence”, we “must protect the school from that”, President Emmanuel Macron declared a few hours earlier, during a visit to a school in Paris.
“He wasn’t a problem child”
In Viry-Châtillon, a quiet town about twenty kilometers south of the capital, the emotion was still palpable on Saturday. An online collection was opened on the town hall’s Facebook page to help the young man’s family.
“He wasn’t a problem child,” Elodie, a 34-year-old carer, was surprised to AFP, coming to pay tribute to Shemseddine in front of the Sablons college, where residents continued to leave roses. white messages and messages of support to the teenager’s family. Like many other residents, this mother whose children attend the same establishment described a young person who was “smiling, very kind too”.
On cards or even on a football, messages left in front of the college wish “Shems” or “Shemsk” to rest in peace, noted an AFP journalist. “He made his class laugh,” recalled Kasy, a student in another third grade class, who came with his family. “I’ve never been afraid, but it’s starting to get scary,” worried Daisy, Kasy’s mother, who has lived in the neighborhood for years, speaking of the teenager’s attack.