Two minors aged 16 were placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday evening in Chartres after being indicted for
“attempted intentional homicide”
on a high school student, we learned on Friday from the Chartres public prosecutor's office.
“Following their indictments, the two minors appeared before the judge of freedoms and detention
(JLD) ,
”
said the public prosecutor, Frédéric Chevallier, in a press release.
In accordance with the prosecution's requisitions,
"the two minors were placed in pre-trial detention in establishments adapted to their minority"
, he added. Arrested shortly after the attack on Tuesday,
“the two in custody admitted to having participated in the facts but they specified that they had not intended to kill the victim but had wanted revenge, “by harming him ”, previous episodes of which they had been victims
,” prosecutor Frédéric Chevallier underlined on Thursday in a previous press release.
The injured young man, aged 17, and whose vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy, was able to be heard by the investigators and specified that he knew one of his attackers, according to the magistrate. After a chase on Tuesday, the suspects managed to catch up with him and one of them
“hit him with a knife three times”
. The scene was filmed
“by the second with his mobile phone and broadcast quickly”
, according to this press release from the prosecutor.