It was his first speech since the announcement of the death of the severely beaten schoolboy in Viry-Chatillon (Essonne) on Thursday. The mayor “Les Centristes” of the commune Jean-Marie Vilain called this Friday afternoon to support the mother and family of the student. “It’s very hard, I’m very moved (…) But for me, it doesn’t matter. In a while I will no doubt have other things that will make me think less about it. But his mother will think about it all her life, we must support her,” he told journalists.
Teenager attacked in Viry-Châtillon: “It’s a mother whose life was ruined”, reacts the mayor of the city pic.twitter.com/w6rUhAmzqS
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“This mother, her life was killed and her little sister too,” he also declared. “It’s horrible,” he insisted, referring to an “absolute tragedy”. “Whatever the reason, it is unacceptable to massacre a kid like that. Reason does not help me because it will be futile,” he said, saying he was caught in the “guts” by “such a degree of violence.” “I imagine his mother, in what state she must be. We can't let this happen, we don't have the right to give up. We must find solutions,” he insisted.
At the start of his speech, Jean-Marie Vilain said he had difficulty “talking about a kid who had everything to have a pleasant life, a good life, to have a lover, to be able to live and to be able to play sports” . “And then, someone decides to do otherwise. There are madmen who say to themselves that for X reason, I have the right to take their life,” he lamented. “They have no right to do that,” he said in a still emotional tone.