A 15-year-old teenager lost his life on Friday afternoon after being beaten up in front of his school in Essonne the day before. A few hours before the announcement of the death, the President of the Republic invited himself to a primary school in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to declare that
“we must protect the school from this”
. Emmanuel Macron, insisting that the executive will be
“intractable against any form of violence”
, expressed his
“full support”
and his
“compassion”
for Shamseddine, the victim, now deceased.
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Reactions are emerging from the political class, which does not hide its emotion. Like the reaction of Minister Prisca Thévenot, government spokesperson.
“He could be our brother, our son, our comrade. Faced with this barbaric crime and violence, our society will not bend. The perpetrators will be found and punished,”
she
said
on
public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin in a press release.
Local elected officials expressed their sorrow. In tears, with a lump in his throat, the mayor
“Les Centristes”
of Viry-Châtillon spoke of an
“absolute tragedy”
committed by
“raving madmen”
, paying tribute to the
“teachers on the ground, his friends too”
.
“We must teach children that there is good and evil (...) and us, to really punish
,” he defended.
“Immense sadness and fear. Solidarity thoughts for his family and loved ones. And for the educational community of the Sablons college in Viry-Chatillon
,” tweeted Jérôme Guedj, socialist deputy for Essonne. Also an Essonne MP, the Insoumis Antoine Léaument expressed his
“sadness”
and his
“anger”
on the social network.
“He had his life ahead of him and it was taken away from him! To his parents, his friends, his classmates, his teachers: condolences and fraternity
,” he added.
The president of the National Rally, also head of the list in the European elections in June, Jordan Bardella, estimated Friday at midday – shortly before the announcement of the death of the beaten teenager – that
“the school is become the breeding ground for violence”
at the microphone of BFMTV. It
“is no longer an inviolable asylum into which the quarrels of men do not enter”
and it has become, according to him,
“the sad beneficiary of the collapse of the authority of the State”
. Shamseddine's death comes three days after a teenage girl from Montpellier, Samara, was violently molested, also in front of her school, by peers.