The minor placed in police custody after a teenager was killed with a knife in Valenton (Val-de-Marne) “admits the facts” with which he is accused and will be presented to a judge on Monday “with a view to his indictment “, the Créteil prosecutor’s office told AFP on Sunday evening. “The police custody measure will be lifted in the evening and the accused will be taken to the Créteil judicial court” before being presented on Monday to an investigating judge, said the prosecution, which requires “its implementation examination of the counts of intentional homicide and attempted intentional homicide”.
“No notion of rivalry between gangs”
“The accused admitted his involvement in the facts,” specifies the Créteil public prosecutor’s office. He had made himself known to the juvenile criminal justice system on three occasions and had “been the subject of educational measures”, indicates this source without further details. Early Friday evening, a 17-year-old teenager was fatally stabbed in this small town in the center of Val-de-Marne while he was going to an appointment made on an internet site to sell jogging pants, according to a police source.
This context of meeting within the framework of a commercial transaction was confirmed by the prosecution on Sunday evening. “I confirm that the dispute between the victims and a group made up of five to six people concerned the sale of a tracksuit by the deceased victim to a member of the group,” declares this source, who recalls that it does not exist “ no notion of rivalry between gangs” in this altercation, as she had affirmed on Friday evening.
A major was injured in the thigh, without a life-threatening condition, the prosecution further indicates. The fatally stabbed teenager had also suffered a stab wound to this area of his body. The investigation, entrusted to the departmental judicial police service of Val-de-Marne, continues to “precisely establish the context and chronology of the facts and carry out new identifications and arrests”, concludes the prosecution.
According to the LR mayor of Valenton, Metin Yavuz, the victim is from the neighboring town of Sucy-en-Brie. The elected official specified that the area where the teenager was fatally stabbed “is totally calm, not at all [connu] for the facts” noted on Friday.