Five young people aged 16 and 17 were indicted in Créteil for violence against younger boys. Wanting to toughen them up, they allegedly subjected them to Taser and lead pistol shots, posting it all on Snapchat.
This Saturday, March 13, five adolescents, four of whom are 16 years old and one 17 years old, were indicted in Créteil (Val-de-Marne) for "aggravated violence" or "complicity in aggravated violence". One of them is also for "attempted murder", indicates the prosecution, quoted by AFP. Two of the young people are placed in pre-trial detention and the other three under judicial supervision, with a ban on going to Créteil.
These five adolescents have been indicted on suspicion of having subjected two 12-year-old boys to violence. According to several sources, they wanted to teach a violent lesson to these children, who were humiliated by a rival gang. "Within the same gang, the older ones found that the younger ones were not strong enough" and they would have "decided to harden the youngest with violence".
At the end of February, young people from the Bleuets district would indeed have humiliated these boys, who live in the "rival" district of l'Echat, by pushing them to "lower their pants" and to "sing insults" on their own neighborhood, before posting the videos on Snapchat. The older members of the gang of the two victims would then have deemed them too weak. According to a source close to the investigation, it was there that they forced them to do push-ups, to undress, before injuring them with Taser and pellet gun fire. They also filmed and shared the scene on the social network.
It was following the complaint of one of the two young boys that an investigation was opened by the Territorial Security of Val-de-Marne. A police source tells AFP that these children "very severely abused" undergo "more pressure" from the neighborhood youth. Very serious facts, to the point that "one of them even had to move to the provinces in an emergency ".
Since the start of 2021, numerous violent fights have attracted the attention of the authorities. There was the beating of Yuriy, the death of two teenagers in Essonne, or the death of Alisha, found drowned in the Seine. According to Jean-Michel Blanquer, the "violence that we see" currently would be "worse if the schools had been closed". In an interview with Parisian published this Saturday, the Minister of National Education expressed his desire to reopen sports infrastructure "as soon as the sanitary conditions" will allow it. He also wants to generalize the programs which "bring around the table those who intervene in the life of a child: parents, school, police, justice, associations and municipalities".