Three minors were sentenced last month for glorifying a crime for congratulating themselves in a rap clip on the violent assault of another youngster, in the context of brawls between rival neighborhoods in Essonne, the prosecution said on Monday. d'Évry, requested by AFP.
These young men were sentenced on November 4 to a suspended six-month prison sentence by the Evry juvenile court.
Aged 15 and 16 when they were indicted in August 2021, they come from Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, a town in Essonne where gangs of teenagers maintain a rivalry with the neighboring town of Saint- Michel-sur-Orge.
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In May 2021, a 15-year-old teenager from Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Dramane, was violently lynched with a hammer in front of his high school.
An attack that a group of amateur rappers from Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois,
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, had glorified in a song entitled
Acte de Barbarie #4.
The clip shows excerpts from a television news referring to the affair and the three rappers make explicit remarks such as
"hammer blow announces the color"
,
"burst of hammer blows, we extinguish you"
,
"c 'was us in front of Leonardo, you dirty son of a bitch'
, the attack having taken place in front of the Léonard-de-Vinci high school.
The young people appear hooded in the clip but had been identified by the investigators.
In the investigation into the assault on young Dramane, two minors were arrested shortly after the incident and charged with attempted murder.