An investigation has been opened for attempted homicide after the attack on Tuesday evening of a 17-year-old in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) by a group of around twenty people armed with hammers, sticks or bats. baseball, the prosecution announced on Wednesday.
The facts took place around 11:00 p.m. near the Verrière shopping center, said this source.
Possible youth rivalry
“
The victim, currently hospitalized, in particular due to cranial hematomas, and whose vital prognosis would no longer be engaged, had been beaten by his attackers,
” said the prosecutor of Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Bladier.
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During the evening, another young man aged 17 presented himself to the Meaux hospital for "
a serious hand injury caused by a knife
", indicates the prosecution.
He explained "
to have found himself in the company of the main victim and to have also been taken to task by the aggressors and victim of violence
".
He attributed the attack "
to a possible rivalry between young people from neighboring neighborhoods
", according to the prosecution, which specifies that the victims did not designate the perpetrators of the violence.
An investigation for attempted voluntary homicide and aggravated voluntary violence was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Meaux.