A pack which attacks a person on the ground, not hesitating to give big kicks in the head.
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According to several corroborating sources, the scene took place on Friday, June 18 in the evening on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris during a "
Project X
"
evening
, in reference to the eponymous American film featuring a disproportionate party organized by teenagers.
The organization of these evenings is done through Instagram accounts followed by thousands of middle and high school students.
The location is usually disclosed in a post after an online vote.
"He was literally beaten up"
According to the participants, “
Project X
” which took place at Les Invalides on Friday evening from 7pm has particularly slipped. “
There have been gratuitous assaults. Suburban groups come to extort money, take phones and clothes. If we refuse to cooperate, they use violence,
”sums up one participant. "
X projects have become really dangerous,
" continues a young girl.
On the Instagram account "
terminaleparis2k21
", many testimonies report the deleterious climate of the evening. Coming to have fun, young people deplore the presence of disruptive elements. “
I witnessed a friend being assaulted by a group of about ten people. The reason ? He refused to be extorted from his phone and what he had on him,
”writes a young man. He continues: “
The response was violence: baseball bats, kicks, huge blows with a stick that split on my friend's head, brooms… He was literally beaten up. His head was disfigured
”.
A teenage girl writes to us that she saw a 17-18 year old boy "
being suddenly beaten up by a group of 10 people because he did not want to 'lower his eyes'
".
"
Several girls have been touched without their consent by old guys,
" testifies a young girl.
"There were more people who wanted to fuck the shit"
Juliette *, 16, participated in this evening.
“
I had to spend the night outside with strangers.
The principle of these evenings is that we all meet to listen to music.
Everyone jumps, bumps into pogos.
Everyone can sympathize with everyone
, ”she explains.
Locked up for many months, she finally hoped to "
celebrate the end of the trials and the Covid
".
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Alas, "
Friday it left far, there were more people who wanted to fuck shit than to have fun
", continues Juliette. She tells us that she saw throwing glass bottles and mortars fire at groups of people or even completely gratuitous assaults. “
There were several groups of 8-9. They would push people to get angry and then beat up those who responded. I also saw a boy walking around with a baseball bat, it's really freaking out,
”she explains. During the evening, the young girl tells of having crossed a gang of the Porte de Vanves, where she lives. “
In the group there was a boy that I often meet downstairs from my house
», She explains.
The members of the group made him understand that they knew his sister, citing the color of her car, before telling her obscenities: "
You are going to suck us, you are going to end up in a cellar
".
Today, Juliette thinks “
never to go back
” to a party at the Invalides.
30 to 2
The events also caused collateral victims.
Paul * and Clément *, 16 years old, had decided to bring back a friend living near Les Invalides, after a restaurant evening in Montparnasse.
After dropping it off, they walk around Les Invalides to get some fresh air and enjoy a walk without a mask.
“
At the intersection of rue Fabert and rue de Grenelle, we saw about thirty scum arriving.
They stuck with us and started to surround us
, ”says Paul.
"
Your helmet is beautiful, give me your phone,
" they order him.
Paul and Clément manage to extricate themselves and accelerate the pace but the group follows them.
The cries and the insults begin to fuse.
Paul manages to dodge a kick that comes from behind while Clement falls after taking a punch in the temple.
He manages to get up quickly and the two friends flee.
Paul and his parents plan to file a complaint.
The young man has a precise description of his attackers in mind: "
Africans and North Africans, all in tracksuits.
», He explains.
How many complaints were filed as a result of Friday's events? On social networks, persistent rumors report seriously injured individuals “
between life and death
”. Photos and videos also point to a young man with a dark complexion and dyed blond hair. He appears to be involved in several assaults.
Difficult to know more at this stage. A police source tells
Le Figaro that
around 1,000 young people gathered on Friday June 18 from 8 p.m. on the lawn at Les Invalides. "
They began to dance and then were quickly dispersed by the police without major incident
," continues this source. “
At around 9 p.m., an individual was arrested for throwing projectiles, then 30 minutes later a young person was injured in the head by a shard of a bottle before being taken in relative emergency to the hospital. The young people dispersed at the Invalides then regrouped in other nearby places before leaving them in sight of the police. The area became calm again at the end of the evening around 11 pm
”, concludes this same source.
* The first name has been changed
