The evening ended in bloodshed in this juvenile home.
A 16-year-old boy was seriously injured on Thursday February 15 in Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne), after receiving two stab wounds to the face.
The alleged perpetrator, another 15-year-old resident, was arrested by the police.
The events occurred shortly before midnight.
Police officers from the Évry police station were called to a violent dispute in a home on Allées Jean-Rostand, in the center of Évry.
Six unaccompanied minors of foreign origin are hosted there by an association.
On the spot, the situation is confused.
A fight broke out in the evening, traces of blood were found.
Above all, one of the residents has two stab wounds to the head: one in the arch, the other on the skull.
Serious injuries which required his evacuation to hospital by the firefighters, without his life being in danger.
Drug user
At the same time, the police are collecting the first testimonies.
At the origin of the altercation, a 15-year-old Ivorian boy, the youngest in the household, who was allegedly violent towards one of his roommates.
Then, armed with a knife, he attacked a second teenager, seriously injuring him in the head.
The weapon was found on site.
The author makes incoherent comments and is threatening.
The police use their electric stun gun to subdue him.
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Questioned later, the young suspect claims to remember nothing.
The fault is his consumption of cannabis, very significant according to the other minors.
The victim was prescribed a total incapacity for work (ITT) of 31 days.
Incident at the courthouse
This Saturday afternoon, his alleged attacker was to be presented to a children's judge at the Évry-Courcouronnes court.
Except that everything did not go as planned: an incident broke out in the jails of the courthouse, the 15-year-old boy having displayed behavior described as “deviant” towards his escort.
“His state of mental health raising questions, the accused was sent back to the hospital center for treatment,” specifies the prosecution.
After his appearance before the doctors, the adolescent should be (re)presented before the judge.
He is being prosecuted for “intentional violence with a weapon”.
The prosecution requested his placement in a closed educational center (CEF).