After the death of Shemseddine, a schoolboy beaten near his college on Thursday in Viry-Châtillon (Essonne), the five people who had been taken into police custody were referred this Sunday, at 4 p.m., to the judicial court of Évry with a view to opening a judicial investigation and their indictment, indicates the department's public prosecutor, Grégoire Dulin.
Thursday evening, near the establishment where he attended third grade, Shemseddine, 15, was violently attacked by masked and gloved individuals. Treated by the emergency room, he died late Friday afternoon as a result of his injuries.
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As part of the investigation opened into murder and violence in a meeting near a school, a first 17-year-old young person was arrested and placed in police custody, shortly after the death was announced. Two other 17-year-olds, a 15-year-old girl and a 20-year-old adult were killed a little later in turn.
The “bereaved” nation
On Saturday, “the five police custody periods were extended”, indicated, in a brief press release, the public prosecutor of Évry, Grégoire Dulin. The respective charges against these five people were not detailed.
The death, four days after another violent attack against a schoolgirl in Montpellier, caused turmoil in the country, right up to the top of the state.
“The entire nation is in mourning,” wrote Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet on X Friday, who visited the victim’s college. “We will be intractable against any form of violence”, we “must protect the school from that”, President Emmanuel Macron declared a few hours earlier, during a visit to a school in Paris.