A 15-year-old minor was seriously injured with a knife on Wednesday April 20 on leaving his high school in Longjumeau in Essonne during a brawl between gangs of young people, the Évry prosecutor's office and a police source told AFP. .
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The injured miner has a major wound, about ten centimeters in the chest, and his vital prognosis is engaged, said the Evry prosecution, requested by AFP and confirming information from the
Parisian
.
According to a police source, he was hit by three stab wounds.
He was rushed to a Paris hospital.
No other injuries were identified, prosecutors said.
According to information from
Le Figaro
, several arrests were made in the evening.
This attack took place at the end of the afternoon in front of the Jean-Perrin vocational school, during a brawl between around thirty people opposing young people from rival districts of Longjumeau and the neighboring town of Chilly-Mazarin.
This school is located near the sports complex between the two municipalities.
An investigation was opened for attempted murder and was entrusted to the Essonne departmental security.
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This department is regularly the scene of brawls between gangs of young people and was badly affected last year, with three deaths of teenagers.
The prefecture counted 73 collective clashes in 2021. A figure which rises to 129, according to the prosecution, when individual conflicts for territorial rivalries are also recorded.
In this context, schools are closely monitored by the authorities to prevent these fights.
