A detail in the appalling video of Yuriy's lynching tells all the horror of this moment.
The kid left for dead has just been kicked in the legs, stomach, face.
The pack flees.
One of the attackers, however, returns to hammer the lifeless boy over the head again.
Hideous cowardice, bestial cruelty, the executioner becomes dehumanized with each blow struck on the victim.
This is not a news item, nor proof, as we have heard, that the confinement of youth increases its violence, nor a remake of
West Side Story
on the Beaugrenelle slab.
No, it is a barbaric outburst, the revenge of archaism on civilization.
The investigation will tell the deep and immediate causes - gratuitous aggression or settling of scores between gangs -, psychiatry, the part of the drive and the premeditated act, but we know the breeding ground: the collapse of the school, the decay of authority, broken attachments, abandonment to mirages
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