A 19-year-old young man died on the evening of Sunday, July 18, a few days after being violently beaten in a context of rivalries between gangs from two neighboring towns of Essonne, AFP learned on Monday, corroborating sources .
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Leader of a district of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (Essonne), the young man was seriously hit on the head and on the body on the night of Thursday July 15 to Friday July 16 "
in the heart of the rival district
" of Sainte -Geneviève-des-Bois, about thirty kilometers south of Paris, according to a police source, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
Hospitalized and placed in a coma since Thursday, he died early Sunday evening, the prosecution confirmed, unable to give more details on the investigation entrusted to the departmental security of Essonne.
According to a second police source, this fight would have pitted five people.
A growing increase in fights between young people
At the end of May, in the same context of rivalries between gangs, a 15-year-old teenager was violently hit with a hammer in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge. Out of business, he had been placed in an artificial coma for several days. Two minors aged 16 and 17 had been indicted for "
attempted murder
" and imprisoned in this investigation.
Brawls between bands of young rivals, with frequent but rarely fatal clashes, greatly affect Île-de-France and particularly the department of Essonne, where two young people were killed in less than 24 hours during two separate brawls in February.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 357 clashes between gangs were recorded in 2020 against 288 in 2019, an increase of nearly 25%.
In Essonne, the figure rose from 56 to 91 between these two years.
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In mid-June, the government presented a series of measures to fight brawls between young people. Among them are the extension of reception hours for leisure centers until 8:00 p.m. in “areas
marked by long commuting times between home and work
” or the “
creation
” of social worker positions in police stations and gendarmeries. .
