Around 2,000 people gathered this Friday in tribute to the teenager killed by the older brothers of a schoolgirl with whom he had an intimate correspondence. The entire Sablons college is there - we are in the middle of school holidays, but there are not many families leaving in April.

“The guy with the smile that we saw in the corridors,” whispers a girl the same age as him: fifteen. ‘Frankly it’s hot, it's…’ says a girl who was 15 at the time of the attack. � ‘I’m going to miss him,’ she says, ‘he was my friend.’ ‘We’re going to find him, we’ve been looking for him for a week.” ‘He’ll be back, he’d say, but he won’t be here,‘ says another girl, who was also 15.