A 22-year-old man was taken into police custody Tuesday, July 27, on suspicion of participating in a brawl that claimed the life of a 19-year-old amid rivalries between gangs from two neighboring towns in the Essonne, the Evry prosecutor's office told AFP.
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The suspect was arrested Tuesday morning, in the investigation entrusted to the departmental security of Essonne, said the prosecution, confirming information from the Parisian.
"
We are now trying to reconstruct what happened,
" said prosecutor Evry Caroline Nisand.
On the night of July 22 to 23, the 19-year-old young man, described by a police source as the leader of a district of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (Essonne), was seriously beaten on the head and body while he was "
in the heart of the rival district
" of Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois, about thirty kilometers south of Paris, according to a police source.
Hospitalized and placed in a coma, he died Sunday evening.
According to a second police source, the brawl would have pitted five people.
357 brawls recorded in 2020
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 were indicted for "
attempted murder
" and imprisoned in this investigation.
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Several brawls between bands of young rivals, with frequent but rarely fatal clashes, have affected Île-de-France in recent months.
In Essonne, 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.
In mid-June, the government presented a series of measures to fight brawls between young people.
Among them are the extension of the reception hours of 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. .