A man was killed on Friday evening in Koungou (Mayotte) and another seriously stabbed while trying to settle accounts after the theft of a laptop, AFP learned on Saturday from the Mayotte prosecutor's office.
The alleged stabber, born in 2002, was arrested and taken into custody for murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
A suspected accomplice was also arrested and taken into custody, the same source said.
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The deceased victim, born in 2000, and the injured victim, born in 1999, are relatives of a 14-year-old boy who had his mobile phone stolen earlier in the day on Friday by two armed people.
Wounded, he was taken to hospital in Mayotte.
In the evening, the teenager's relatives found those they suspect of having stolen the laptop to try to recover it.
According to the prosecution, one of the alleged thieves grabbed a knife and struck two relatives.
One died, the other was seriously injured and taken to hospital in Mayotte.
The alleged stabber was quickly arrested.
A judicial investigation will be opened, further specified the prosecution.
This death comes on an island plagued by a surge of violence following the stabbing murder of a young man on Monday in the same northeastern part of the department.
On Friday, the government announced the emergency deployment on the island of a squadron of mobile gendarmes in order to "
restore republican order
".
Rival gangs have been clashing since the beginning of the week, setting up roadblocks and the police had to intervene to "
liberate many axes regularly obstructed by burning barricades
", operations during which "
four departmental gendarmes as well that three mobile gendarmes were injured by throwing projectiles and blows
,” the Interior and Overseas Ministries said on Friday in a joint statement.
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Two magistrates filed a complaint on Friday after being attacked the day before by a group of people armed with machetes, who attacked their vehicles as they left the court to return to their homes, we learned from a source. judicial.
