By Thomas Hoffmann
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updated on Dec 5, 23 at 4:05 p.m.
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A new murder in Val-d’Oise. Monday December 4, 2023, a 15-year-old teenager was killed several times stabbing during brawl between rival gangs in Ézanville (Val-d’Oise). The tragedy took place around 6:15 p.m., route de Domont, opposite the Picard store.
Brawl between rival gangs from Ézanville and Domont
According to the first elements of the gendarmes’ investigation, the violent fight involved around twenty young people coming from districts of Domont and D’Ézanville, where the victim was from. Of the high school students “who knew each other”, indicates the public prosecutor of Val-d’Oise, Pierre Sennès.
The emergency services having been alerted by witnesses of the violence, all the protagonists fled when the police arrived. Presenting several stab wounds, the teenager died on the spot despite the care provided by firefighters and Samu 95 doctors.
The autopsy carried out Tuesday morning, at the forensic medicine department of the criminal research institute of the national gendarmerie (IRcgn), established that the victim had died following a stab wound to the chest.
“It is a young man of Haitian origin, who lives with his mother. He has a little sister who goes to school in Ézanville and a younger brother with a disability. He was involved in the city’s youth service, particularly for homework help,” said the mayor (Dvd) of Ézanville, Thierry Battaglia, before discussing the origin of the brawl.
The altercation was the result of a sneaker story, according to what was reported by two comrades. The perpetrators of the altercation encountered the young man on his return from Domont high school. The fatal attack followed.
While a second youngslightly injured during the brawl, presented himself to the Domont gendarmerie brigade During the evening, the police were deployed in large numbers in the area to avoid any risk of reprisals. Four gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoons as well as around fifteen men from the Val-d’Oise intervention company ensured security in the two towns with the support of the CRS 8.
Fear of reprisals
If no new incident broke out during the night, the town of Ézanville was still “policed by the gendarmes” on Tuesday, underlines Thierry Battaglia before admitting his fear that certain young people might be driven by “a spirit of revenge. I’m dreading leaving school this evening. I mobilized youth service agents to reach out to adolescents.”
“If the young people of Domont need to talk, I am here,” also confided the mayor of Domont, Frédéric Bourdin, after launching an appeal for calm on social networks following the tragedy. “It is necessary so that light can be shed on the events. »
Investigation for intentional homicide
While a investigation for intentional homicide was opened, the investigations were entrusted to the Versailles gendarmerie research section, as well as to the Val-d’Oise departmental gendarmerie group.
Currently, significant judicial police resources have been deployed to conduct numerous hearings, taking into account the people present at the crime scene, carry out technical and scientific police investigations and identify the perpetrator(s) of the facts.
For his part, Thierry Battaglia confided that he intended to contact the victim’s mother at the end of the day, Tuesday. “A march could be organized,” he added before we went to press.
Three murders in four days
This is the third murder in four days in Val-d’Oise. Saturday, December 2, a 16-year-old teenager was killed by a stab wound to the chest in Montmagny. Friday, December 1, a 36-year-old man died following, once again, a knife attack in Fosses.
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