“We will have to relearn how to really punish”: the mayor of Viry-Châtillon on the verge of tears after the death of a beaten teenager. Jean-Marie Vilain insisted on the importance of the sanctions which should be inflicted on the perpetrators of the attack.

The events took place in a street near Les Sablons college, where the deceased teenager, Shamseddine, was a student in third grade. An investigation was opened into “murder and violence in meetings near a school,” said public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin earlier.