What happened at the foot of a building in the Saint-Éloi residence on Friday evening?
This is the whole point of a judicial investigation opened after the attack on a teenager in Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne).
It all starts around 10 p.m. on February 2.
Witnesses report that a fight has just broken out between two young men on rue Courbet.
Or an area renowned for harboring drug trafficking.
When the firefighters and the municipal police of Chilly-Mazarin arrived on site, they discovered a boy lying on the ground, inanimate, with serious head injuries.
He is 17 years old and was allegedly hit by several repeated kicks to the face.
A regular trampling which led him to the Percy hospital center (Hauts-de-Seine).
His vital prognosis is then compromised.
The victim's attacker disappeared before help arrived.
The trail of settling scores
The national police services take over and begin their findings.
Later in the weekend, the boy hospitalized Friday in Percy woke up and survived his injuries.
But, faced with investigators from the Massy-Palaiseau district who will interview him, the victim remains silent.
“The possibility of settling scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking is still favored,” says a source close to the matter.
Important element: toxicological examinations showed that the victim had consumed cocaine that evening.
Would he have contracted debts with the resellers of the Saint-Éloi residence?
Was he involved in trafficking?
The investigation opened for “attempted homicide” must clarify these gray areas.
As it should allow the police to trace the perpetrator of the violence.
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The Saint-Éloi residence, in the south of the city, is one of the districts whose town hall wanted to begin the “reconquest” at the turn of the 2020s. A municipal police annex was inaugurated there, and civil servant patrols were reinforced. , in order to respond to the various incivilities denounced by residents... including those linked to drug trafficking.