The rain falls on the road.
Teenagers, faces protected by hoods, close to the police, wait, their eyes red with tears.
A few meters from them, behind emergency and police vehicles, the lifeless body of their friend lies under a white sheet.
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the victim could not be saved.
“A 16-year-old minor died of a stab wound during a brawl outside the Guillaume-Appolinaire high school in Thiais, between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday, specifies the Créteil prosecution.
Another minor, injured in a thigh, was evacuated to the Henri-Mondor hospital.
His days would not be in danger.
The public prosecutor must go on the spot.
The victim must have tried to escape since she was found at 26, rue Helène-Muller, the high school being in rue du Pavé de Grignon, perpendicular to that where the victim was discovered.
“Apparently there was a brawl,” a witness believes as police reinforcements arrive.
"It was tense since Friday," said a woman.
A possible rivalry between two districts at the origin of this brawl
According to the first elements of the investigation, entrusted to the sub-directorate of the judicial police of Val-de-Marne, it would be a rivalry between young people from Choisy-le-Roi and others from the town. of Thiais, from the city of Grands Champs.
A dozen hooded attackers allegedly attacked the two victims.
"An investigation has been opened in flagrante," said the prosecution.
Finally, the ten young people, accompanied by two adults, were able to reach the school under police escort in peace.
The first police officers gathered the possible witnesses of the scene under cover.