A 16-year-old teenager died Sunday evening in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, in the agglomeration of Rouen, during a brawl between gangs.
He would have lost his life during a pitched battle between twenty young people from two districts, the city of Sablières and the city of Petit Quevilly, indicates a source close to the investigation.
It would be a brawl with knives.
Around 10 p.m., “residents alerted the police to a brawl involving around fifty people.
When the police arrived on the spot, they discovered the body of a young man born in 2004 and who bore the traces of several injuries, ”prosecutor Pascal Prache told AFP.
The young victim, stabbed in the back, was declared dead by the Samu at 10:45 p.m.
An 18-year-old boy was arrested, he is currently in police custody.
The judicial police of Rouen are seized of the investigation, opened for "intentional homicide".