New drama in Seine-Saint-Denis. Friday evening, near a burger restaurant located at the intersection of two main roads, where “kids from all neighborhoods” converge according to the mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois Bruno Beschizza, a 16-year-old teenager received a blow. of knife. Hospitalized immediately, he finally died from his injuries, we learned on Saturday from a police source and from the city’s mayor.
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, which revealed the boy’s death, another teenager was more lightly injured during the same knife attack, and his vital prognosis is not in jeopardy. According to the daily, several perpetrators are actively sought by the police.
A simple “quarrel” that escalates?
Mayor Bruno Beschizza, also Les Républicains national secretary in charge of security, launched on Saturday “a solemn appeal for calm”, “above all not to fall into a spiral of revenge or reprisals”. “For me, this has no link with neighborhood rivalries, it is not the preferred hypothesis, we had no precursory sign of gang or neighborhood rivalries,” assured the city councilor, attached by AFP. “We would apparently be in something completely irrational, not the settling of scores linked to drug trafficking, not gang warfare, but a quarrel of adolescents which escalates and reaches the worst end, death of a young person,” said the mayor.
Our rival bands file
The police are exercising “sustained vigilance” to try to avoid possible “retaliatory actions”, a police source also indicated. The phenomena of rivalries between gangs are taken into account even if the altercation does not necessarily originate in the neighborhoods from which the people involved come, underlined this source.
Bruno Beschizza called for “respecting the family’s mourning and letting the time of the investigation pass, hoping that the author or authors turn themselves in to justice.”
