A 15-year-old boy was killed Monday in a brawl between rival gangs in Val-d’Oise, just three days after the death of a thirty-year-old in another brawl in the same department. This time the victim is much younger. Kendy was killed “with a stab wound”, according to the Pontoise prosecutor’s office, after a clash involving young people from Domont and Ezanville in the north of Val-d’Oise.
Facts
Monday around 6 p.m., “a brawl involving around twenty people occurred in the town of Domont,” reports Pontoise public prosecutor Pierre Sennes in a press release. “When the gendarmes arrived on site, a few minutes after the fight broke out, the group of individuals fled. » During this confrontation, “a 15-year-old minor died on the public highway, despite the rapid intervention of emergency services who tried to resuscitate him,” he wrote. The autopsy “established that the victim had died following a stab wound to the chest,” Pierre Sennes further specifies.
This young resident of Ezanville was leaving high school with two friends and was returning home when he was attacked by young people from Domont. The latter had come to take revenge after a previous fight last week, according to the councilor’s press account.
Who was the victim?
Kendy was “a young man without history, known positively in the town of Ezanville, he participated in homework help, in active life”, “he was a good student, he had a good future ahead of him”, insists the mayor of the town of Ezanville, Eric Battaglia (DVD).
He was “full of kindness, benevolence, always looking out for others”, “he was a very good guy, we will miss him”, adds a youth leader from Ezanville, not wishing to give his name or his name. first name.
A context of rivalries between neighborhoods
In a video broadcast last night on the social network Snapchat and shown by a high school student to AFP, we see on the sidewalk a young man on the ground, violently beaten in the body and head by two attackers. Right next door, another teenager is knocked to the ground and punched. Highlighted in the video, is written “when I tell you that we fuck these old bastards”.
Rivalries between the district of Ru-de-Vaux (Ezanville), where Kendy comes from, and that of the Cité de la Gare in Domont have lasted for around twenty years according to the municipality. “For years we, field leaders, have been saying ‘do something, we need to get together around the table, there is a problem, one day there will be a death’… here we are it’s there,” the Ezanville youth manager lamented to AFP. “The mothers are very worried,” she testifies, just after a telephone conversation with one of them.
What are the authorities doing to restore calm?
After the events, a large force of law enforcement (gendarmes and police officers) was deployed in the area and in the neighborhoods concerned. It is in the George Sand comprehensive high school in Domont, where teenagers from the two rival neighborhoods are educated, that tensions are said to have risen, leading to the first fight.
Various listening cells for adults and students (the establishment has 1,400) have been set up at the high school, the Versailles rectorate told AFP.
Where is the investigation?
The investigation, opened for intentional homicide, was entrusted to the Val-d’Oise gendarmerie group and the Versailles research section. According to the prosecutor, “significant judicial police resources were deployed to conduct numerous hearings, taking into account the people present at the crime scene, to carry out technical and scientific police investigations and to identify the perpetrator(s) of the facts” .