An 18-year-old student seriously injured Wednesday morning in a “punitive expedition” near his high school in Saint-Denis died on Saturday from his injuries, announced the municipality of Seine-Saint-Denis. The attack took place a few hours before the death of young Sedan, 14 years old. It is not currently known whether the two events are linked.
An 18-year-old student seriously injured Wednesday morning in a “punitive expedition” near his high school in Saint-Denis succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, this town of Seine-Saint-Denis announced. “We learn with shock and great sadness of the death of Farid, a high school student violently attacked last Wednesday near his school,” said the municipality in a press release posted on social networks. The attack took place a few hours before the death in the same city of a 14-year-old teenager, named Sedan, stabbed to death in the metro. It is not currently known whether the two events are linked.
Wednesday morning, Farid A. was standing a few meters from his high school and was preparing to take a mock exam “when a car stopped at (his) height for an operation akin to a punitive expedition” , reported the city. “The attack was fleeting, cold, indiscriminate and extremely violent with the use of blunt objects,” said the city’s press release.
A gathering in tribute to Sedan
According to a police source contacted AFP on Friday, the victim was attacked with baseball bats. She had been placed in an artificial coma at the Beaujon hospital in Clichy. Farid A. died when a gathering was held on Saturday morning in front of Saint-Denis town hall in memory of Sedan, stabbed to death on the platform of the Basilique de Saint-Denis metro station.
This demonstration, which brought together several hundred people and numerous local elected officials, was an opportunity to launch calls for calm in a context of high tensions within the city of 113,000 inhabitants. Altercations between young people from different neighborhoods have increased in recent days in the municipality, requiring a strengthening of the police force and a ban on gatherings by the town hall until Monday.
“Everyone must take the measure of their responsibility to put an end to the cycle of violence,” called the city of Saint-Denis in its press release.