After the death of Elias, 14, stabbed to death at the collarbone, two suspects aged 16 and 17 have been interviewed since Friday evening by investigators from the 3rd district of the Paris judicial police. According to our information, these two adolescents, well known to justice, made partial confessions: they recognized their presence on Friday evening around 8 p.m. near the Jules Noël stadium (Paris XIV) from where Elias was out of training soccer.
It was there that the young victim would have crossed paths with suspects who would have fatally stabbed him. According to our information, adolescents recognized the attempt to extortion with the Elias mobile phone in front of the investigators, but not to have wore the deadly stab.
Identified by a witness on the scene and arrested a few hours after homicide at the home of their parents where they had taken refuge in haste after the facts, the two teenagers aged 16 and 17 are already well known to justice. The youngest accounts, theft with violence and theft in meeting in his locker. The second is known to the police for theft, extorts with violence and for ports of a category D weapon, that is to say of a stabbing weapon. According to our information, the latter is strongly suspected of being the author of the stab wound to which Elias finally died on Saturday noon.
-The two young suspects knew each other since they live in the same set of buildings but in separate buildings. Both had been presented to justice on October 30, 2024 in the same flight file with violence. They were to appear in June 2025 before the tribunal for minors. In the meantime, they had prohibited from getting into contact or being together.
In March 2024, Le Parisien looked at delinquency in the Parisian districts. It was then noted that incivility such as degradations, thefts and violence had been noted in the 14th at the end of 2023 near the Didot and Jules Noël stadiums. “By talking to social services and sports associations, we identified five young people,” said Carine Petit, the mayor (PS). They were given educational support, we helped their families and since then, everything is better ”. Perhaps not for all these young people since, according to our information, the two suspects of the murder of Elias are among these five people taken care of at the time.
