A 17-year-old was indicted for attempted voluntary homicide and placed under judicial control after a brawl between rival gangs during which another teenager was seriously injured Tuesday in Brunoy (Essonne), announced Friday the prosecutor's office of Evry contacted by AFP.
According to a source close to the case, a brawl broke out between several dozen young people from the districts of Tournelles de Yerres and Mardelles de Brunoy, two neighboring cities of Essonne, about twenty kilometers southeast of Paris. A young man from Yerres was stabbed in the stomach. Hit in the liver, he was winched in absolute emergency to a Parisian hospital. On Thursday night, his prognosis was still engaged.
Four arrests
Broken glass hammers were found at the scene of the confrontation. Four minors aged 16 and 17 were arrested: two from Yerres and two from Brunoy. One of them admitted to stabbing but denied doing so intentionally. Indicted Thursday for attempted intentional homicide at the end of his police custody, he was also placed under the status of assisted witness in the voluntary violence component of the case.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, which had requested his pre-trial detention, appealed against his judicial review. The other three suspects were indicted for intentional violence. They were also placed under judicial control.
The department of Essonne, populated by 1.3 million people in the south of Île-de-France, is regularly the scene of clashes between gangs of young teenagers from "rival" cities. These brawls, sometimes very violent and for no apparent reason, can be deadly. In 2020, a quarter of the brawls recorded in France took place in Essonne. In 2021, 129 clashes were recorded. Three youths, including two 14-year-olds, were killed that year.
