A 15-year-old teenager was stabbed to death on Tuesday around 10 p.m. in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), we learned from the prefecture on Wednesday, confirming information from France Bleu. The victim received a stab wound while intervening during an “altercation between teenagers”, the Valencia prosecutor's office later said in a press release.
Witnesses and video surveillance allowed investigators to “target suspects and in particular the probable perpetrator of the fatal blow” who are “very actively sought,” said prosecutor Laurent de Caigny. “An individual linked to the suspects” was arrested, he said.
The events occurred in the street in the Monnaie district, following a dispute the day before with his attacker.
Hit on the back
The young boy was allegedly hit in the back while he was on a public road. A witness to the scene gave him assistance in conjunction with the firefighters before the latter and a crew from the Smur arrived on site, reports Le Dauphiné Libéré.
Despite their intervention, the teenager succumbed to his injuries in hospital less than an hour later. The victim born in May 2008 was unknown to the justice system, specifies France Bleu.
An investigation has been opened for intentional homicide, specifies the public prosecutor, entrusted to the Organized Crime Division of the interdepartmental judicial police service.
Six months after the Crépol drama
This drama echoes the death of Thomas, a 16-year-old high school student who was fatally injured in November at the end of a village ball in Crépol, in the Drôme. Some of the people indicted for “intentional homicide by an organized gang” in the context of this case come from the city of La Monnaie.
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The investigation did not make it possible to identify the author of the stabbing which caused the death of this young person who aroused emotion in the region and mobilized the ultra-right on the theme of security, sensitive neighborhoods and immigration.
Marie-Hélène Thoraval, mayor of Romans-sur-Isère, told BFM that the victim was not known to the police or the town hall. The elected official deplored on the microphone of France Bleu "once again an increase in violence and in particular the use of knives, bladed weapons which would become an instrument with which we have the right of life or death and this is unacceptable" .
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced tougher sanctions after the death of 15-year-old Shemseddine. This is far from enough for Marie-Hélène Thoraval. “I'm a little tired of the measures that are announced every time there is a tragedy. Every time we have a
Beauvau
of je ne sais quoi! Today, I would like a real identification of what is happening and a closer link between what the government decrees and the reality of what is happening in our territories,” laments the elected official.