A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Agen on Wednesday by another girl after the white march in memory of a boy shot dead on Sunday, police said.
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According to this source, in the hall of the Agen train station, at the end of the afternoon, a 17-year-old girl stabbed the teenager's chest with which she accused her of having held words moved during the white march. Police said the stabber was arrested soon after. According to a source familiar with the matter, the victim was rushed to a clinic with an affected lung.
At the initiative of two friends of the young man who died on Sunday, some 500 people had met on Wednesday calmly for a white walk, left in front of the McDonald's restaurant where two 16-year-olds were targeted Sunday afternoon by gunfire. gun in the center of Agen. One, seriously injured in the chest, died in hospital. The second, injured in one leg, was also hospitalized. He participated Wednesday in a wheelchair in the walk, a white rose in his hand.
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The alleged gunman was arrested, charged with murder and attempted murder, and placed in detention Tuesday at a juvenile center. He invoked "a context of threats of which he has been the victim for several weeks from" of the young people he fired on, according to the prosecution.
The deceased high school student, of Moroccan and Cape Verdean origin, was preparing a vocational baccalaureate in Bordeaux and spent his holidays with his mother. He will be buried Friday after a ceremony at the Agen mosque.
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