The 15-year-old boy found unconscious with “traces of blows” In “a street located near his college” of Viry-Châtillon on Thursday died, announced this Friday April 5 the Evry public prosecutor’s office. “Emergency surgery” during the night, the teenager did not survive. “An autopsy will take place in the coming hours,” added the magistrate.
The investigation is now open “leaders of assassination and violence in meetings near a school establishment”indicates the public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin. “Investigations are continuing to determine the circumstances of these criminal acts and allow the arrest of the perpetrators”adds his press release.
The events occurred on Thursday around 4:20 p.m. when the boy, in 3rd grade, was leaving a music class at his Sablons college to return home on foot. On the way to his home, between two stairwells, the teenager was attacked by a group of young people with their faces hidden by hoods, passers-by and the mayor of Viry-Châtillon testified. The teenager then allegedly suffered a real lynching, with kicks and punches. No weapon would have been used according to initial findings.
The boy, left for dead on the asphalt, was injured along the body and in the head. He was found shortly after by a passer-by who informed the emergency services who provided him with first aid. The attackers fled and have not been found at this time.
“We will be intractable against any form of violence,” And “we must protect the school from this”, hammered President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to a school in Paris, expressing before the announcement of the death his “full support” and his “compassion” for the college student.
The government spokesperson for her part denounced “a barbaric crime”. “Faced with this barbaric crime and violence, our society will not bend”declared on the social network X Prisca Thevenot, stating that “the perpetrators will be found and punished”.
Update at 4:17 p.m., reaction from the government spokesperson.