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Seven young people indicted for the murder of Lucas in Essonne

2022-09-09T16:55:36.966Z


The suspects, aged 18 to 20, are remanded in custody for murder in an organized gang. Seven people were indicted in August in the investigation into the murder of Lucas, 17, who died in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) after being beaten by other young people at the end of July, AFP learned on Friday. from judicial sources. To discover LIVE- Death of Elizabeth II: follow minute by minute reactions to the death of the Queen of England These people, aged 18 to 20, were indicted for murder


Seven people were indicted in August in the investigation into the murder of Lucas, 17, who died in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) after being beaten by other young people at the end of July, AFP learned on Friday. from judicial sources.

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These people, aged 18 to 20, were indicted for murder in an organized gang on August 11 and 12, then placed in pre-trial detention, said the judicial source.

Seriously injured in the head after being hit in the street on July 26, Lucas died the next day.

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The prosecution of Evry opened, on August 2, a judicial investigation for intentional homicide in an organized gang and aggravated violence.

A white march brought together nearly 200 people on August 6 to pay tribute to him, in this city of more than 15,000 inhabitants, located 25 kilometers south of Paris.

Several clashes between young people had taken place there on July 26.

A brawl first opposed young people from Fleury-Mérogis to a gang from the Pyramids district in Évry.

This first fight ended in the hospitalization of a young man from Évry.

Lucas, with a clean criminal record, could have been attacked during a "

return match

", a punitive expedition carried out later in the evening of July 26, to avenge the injury of the youngster from Évry.

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According to Lucas' uncle, who testified to AFP at the time, his nephew was not involved in these clashes but had "

just left his house to go to a friend's house

" when he was violently attacked.

A version supported by the mayor (PCF) Olivier Corzani, describing a “

calm and gentle

” teenager, there “

at the wrong time in the wrong place

”.

The city councilor had also assured AFP "

regularly alert the services of the State

" on the "

phenomena of recurring brawls

" in his city, in particular with "

the neighboring town of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

".

"

With the Pyramids of Évry it's new

," he noted.

Essonne, south of Paris, is the regular scene of sometimes very violent clashes between young people from rival neighborhoods or cities, even if the origin of this competition often remains unclear.

Tensions sometimes arise in the context of drug trafficking.

In 2020, a quarter of the brawls recorded in France took place in Essonne.

In 2021, three young people, including two 14-year-olds, were killed there.

Source: lefigaro

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