It is undoubtedly a brawl between young people from neighboring districts that has gone very badly.
A 15-year-old teenager is between life and death after being stabbed on Saturday night in Élancourt.
Two other people were injured during the clash but one of them refused to report to the authorities.
At around 5:55 p.m. on Saturday, Parc des Coudrays, opposite the Petits Prés district, the neighbors warned the firefighters after witnessing a violent fight involving several people.
Rescuers discover a young man lying unconscious, covered in blood.
The victim was hit by at least two stab wounds to the chest and shows signs of blows to the face.
He was very seriously injured, his lungs and his heart were affected.
The emergency services lead him to the Percy military hospital in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).
"He had to be operated on during the night" adds a source close to the case.
The victim is known to the police
The police are still trying to identify the perpetrator (s) of this crime.
"We do not yet know exactly what happened," said the same source.
But the neighbors said that the young man had been attacked during a fight ”.
The clash, involving a dozen people, broke out on a large circle of concrete, surrounded by grassy hills and a few buildings.
"The victim is known to the police for acts of violence, but, to our knowledge, he was not in the drug trade."
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During the night, the investigators of the criminal brigade heard a second victim.
This boy, very slightly injured, presented himself to the Elancourt police station with his mother.
He told the police that he had participated in this fight and above all that a third victim was also allegedly stabbed.
But this young man did not come forward.
"Their big brother called for calm"
The brothers of the victim, originally from the Petits-Prés district, expressed their desire for revenge, thinking they had identified one of the attackers who would come from another district bordering the park.
“But their big brother called for calm”.
This Sunday afternoon, while families are walking in the park, Nanou, the victim's older brother, accompanied by two friends, returns to the scene of the confrontation.
“I'm leaving the hospital.
We do not yet know if he will recover, ”he explains.
We are trying to understand what happened ”.
The young man repeats that his brother was not involved in drug business.
"He really had nothing to do with it," insists one of the friends.
So far, no suspect has been identified.
The town hall sector and especially the Petits-Près district has the unfavorable reputation of harboring networks of cannabis resin traffickers.
It is also known to be the scene of brawls which pit these young residents against other armed groups who come from rival districts of the city or the neighboring commune of Trappes.
The criminal brigade of the regional directorate of the judicial police of Versailles is responsible for carrying out the investigation for attempted murder.