A 16-year-old teenager died Sunday, June 14 in the evening in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, in the agglomeration of Rouen, during a brawl between gangs, AFP learned on Monday from the city's public prosecutor. .
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Around 10 p.m., “
residents alerted the police to a brawl involving around fifty people. When the police arrived on the spot, they discovered the body of a young man born in 2004 and who bore the traces of several injuries,
”prosecutor Pascal Prache told AFP. According to him, the police found at the scene of the tragedy, rue Ledru-Rollin in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, "
a certain number of weapons by destination
". "
It seems that there were some small brawls before this one in other places of the city
", specified the prosecutor.
The investigation, which was entrusted to the Departmental Directorate of the Judicial Police (DDPJ), was opened for "
intentional homicide
", according to the same source. The autopsy is due to take place on Tuesday, June 15. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 357 clashes between gangs had been recorded in 2020, up nearly 25% from the 288 recorded in 2019. In March, the government had decreed general mobilization against brawls between young people, after several fatal fights, especially in Île-de-France.
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