An investigation opened after the broadcast of a lynching video in Essonne

The video was shared widely on social media over the weekend.

This Saturday, an Internet user broadcasts an extract showing a teenager being lynched by a dozen others in Montgeron (Essonne).

In an outburst of violence, several young people dressed in black, some hooded, punch and kick a young man at the foot of a building in the sensitive district of La Forêt.

A young woman and an older man try in vain to intervene.

A second video clip shows the victim on the ground, in a park, again being hit by several people.

This time, it is a mother who tries to protect him from the many blows of the attackers.

Essonne: according to information, a young homosexual is beaten up by a gang of scum in a district of Montgeron

An outburst of violence that even a mother and a father as well as a courageous young woman will not be able to stop

Our daily life #homophobe pic.twitter.com/iEu95m0w2n

- MEHDI AÏFA (@Mehdi_Aifa_AJR) October 10, 2021

Following the many sharing of the video, the mayor (LR) of Montgeron, Sylvie Carillon, said she was "deeply shocked" in a tweet published this Sunday.

"It could be a homophobic aggression," says the collective Stop Homophobie, without any evidence, at present, to confirm it.

Deeply shocked by images of an assault of inhuman violence to @ montgeron91 circulating on social networks.

Investigation underway to identify the victim and the attackers.

Total mobilization because these acts have no right of citizenship @durovray

- CARILLON Sylvie (@SylvieCarillon) October 10, 2021

The victim, a minor, heard on Monday

Internet users reported the facts to the online police platform Pharos on Sunday.

What triggered the opening of an investigation by the Montgeron police station, indicates a police source.

According to this same source, the attack dates back to Thursday, September 30, around 6.30 p.m.

An anonymous applicant had called the police.

On their arrival in the La Forêt district, neither the victim, nor the attackers nor the witnesses could be found by the police crews.

No complaint had been filed.

This Monday, according to our information, the victim, a minor, was identified and is being heard.

The investigation is continuing.