A 16-year-old minor died and another was seriously injured in a knife attack on Monday January 16 in front of a high school in Thiais, in Val-de-Marne. The track of the brawl between rival bands is privileged.
A new knife attack took place in the Paris region this Monday, January 16 and caused several victims. The facts took place in front of the Guillaume Apollinaire high school in Thiais, in Val-de-Marne, between 8 and 9 a.m. according to information from RMC. Several blows were struck and killed a 16-year-old minor while another victim of the same age was seriously injured in the thigh after being stabbed. The second victim, whose vital prognosis would not be engaged, was transported to the Henri Mondor hospital center in Créteil. The blows were said to have been struck during a brawl between rival brandes, writes The Parisian.
The departmental service of the judicial police of Val-de-Marne was seized of the investigation “open in flagrance”, said the prosecution. He would also have already arrested a 16-year-old teenager according to theAFP.
A deadly brawl between rival gangs
The first elements of the investigation collected by the police suggest that the blows could have been struck during a brawl between two rival gangs. This is also the preferred track. The conflict at the origin of the brawl would oppose a gang of young people from Choisy-le-Roi and another made up of teenagers living in the town of Thiais, more precisely in the Cité des Grands Champs, according to various police sources. quoted in the media.
The climate between the teenagers of the district “was tense since Friday” according to a woman heard by the investigators and quoted by The Parisian. While a witness to the scene spoke of a “fight”. HAS France info to go further and to indicate that the conflicts between young people have multiplied in recent days and that several arrests have taken place during the day of Friday 13 January.
But the precise origin of the brawl and the collectively organized attack is not known. The facts would have taken place in front of the school but the hospitalized victim could have escaped since she was found in the rue Hélène-Muller, perpendicular to that of the school.
16-year-old boy arrested
The two victims were taken by surprise and attacked by ten attackers who all had their faces hooded. A teenager was arrested around 10 a.m. near his high school in Créteil. The young man is from Choisy-le-Roi according to a police source with RMC. After the rapid intervention of the police, the attackers were reportedly taken inside the Guillaume Apollinaire high school in Thiais accompanied by two adults and a police escort.
The police on the spot collect the testimonies of various witnesses of the scene. The public prosecutor and the duty magistrate of the division of family affairs and minors went to the scene on Monday, reports again RMC. On the spot, the “dramatic event shocks everyone”, reacted the mayor of Thiais Richard Dell’Agnola, with theAFP.