Rivalries between young people at the origin of this violent brawl? Two minors aged 16 were indicted on Thursday in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) for “violence in a meeting with a weapon” and “attempted voluntary homicide” on a 17-year-old high school student whose vital prognosis is not known. more committed, announced the Chartres prosecutor's office.
Arrested shortly after the attack on Tuesday, “the two in custody admitted to having participated in the facts but they specified that they had not intended to kill the victim but had wanted revenge,
by harming him
. previous episodes of which they had been victims,” said prosecutor Frédéric Chevallier in a press release.
Scene filmed then broadcast
The injured young man was able to be heard by investigators and said he knew one of his attackers, the magistrate said. After a chase, they managed to catch up with him on Tuesday and one of them “hit him with a knife three times (…). This scene was filmed by the second with his cell phone and broadcast quickly,” according to the prosecutor’s press release.
The two young people had taken refuge in a building hall because they were being pursued by others who probably wanted revenge. “It’s probably a rivalry between young people from different neighborhoods, but we have to wait for the hearings,” said the prosecutor on Wednesday.
The two indictees were to be presented on Thursday evening before the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD). Aged 16, these high school students live in Lucé (Eure-et-Loir) and Les Villages-Vovéens (Eure-et-Loir). They are already known to juvenile justice. The prosecution requested their placement in pre-trial detention, said Mr. Chevallier.