Two young people aged 16 and 17 acknowledged having wanted to steal the laptop of Elias, 14, Friday January 24, but not having brought the dagger that caused his death.
The drama took place Friday, January 24 around 8 p.m. in Paris. Elias, 14, was stabbed with the collarbone while he refused to give his mobile phone to two racketeers, aged 16 and 17. He died of his injuries. The teenagers, already known to justice, were arrested in the evening.
Harranted by investigators from the judicial police, the two minors recognized their presence on the evening of the incident, near the Jules Noël stadium (Paris XIVE) from where Elias came out of football training, reports The Parisian. They would also have recognized the attempted extortion with violence of the teenager’s laptop. But not the deadly blow.
It would seem that the two attackers gave the stab when the victim resisted the flight. Elias then collapsed. The attackers fled, without taking their loot. Elias was accompanied by a friend, who tried to wear the first rescue gestures before the arrival of help. Supported at Necker Hospital, the doctors found his death on Saturday at noon.
Lockers already loaded for the two attackers
The victim’s friend, who attended the scene, described the young offenders as wearing braids for one, and of strong corpulence for the other. Arrested and placed in police custody by the police, it turned out that the two minors were not at their gallop. The youngest already has a locker filled with theft, theft with violence and theft in meeting. That of 17 years would have been the subject of an educational measure in December 2023 for acts of theft and extortion, describes The Parisian. He is known for having committed thefts, extortion with violence and for wearing white weapons. He was the one who stabbed Elias.
The duo had already been referred last October for violent thefts, and prohibited from getting into contact before appearing next June before the miners’ court.
On sound X accountFrançois Bayrou denounced a “feeling of impunity” and condemned “teenage violence” which appeared on Friday. The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, castigated a “barbarians” act And said he was “horrified by this free violence, the result of a loss of bearings and the collapse of authority”.
His counterpart to justice, Gérald Darmanin, said on Sunday January 26 on x Gather on Monday “all the general prosecutors and public prosecutors, placed under (his) authority, in order to give them the instructions of criminal policy to implement” in the face of “unacceptable violence” of the past few weeks and the latter days. He “will assign them two priorities that will provide a quick and firm criminal response”.