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Paris: a teenager killed during a brawl between rival gangs
A teenager was stabbed to death Tuesday morning in front of the Rodin high school in the 13th arrondissement of Paris during a brawl between rival gangs, clashes that are increasingly frequent in the capital. “This murder is a continuation of “a phenomenon of recurrent brawls between young people in the 13th arrondissement sector, where eight clashes have been noted since May 2024”, the prosecutor’s office told AFP. The facts took place shortly after 8:00 a.m. near the school during a brawl, according to a police source. When the police arrived, “the protagonists had fled,” the same source continued. A minor “was in cardio-respiratory arrest (…) presenting head injuries”, added the Paris prosecutor’s office, specifying that a “knife had been discovered near him”. “Despite attempts resuscitation department of the Samu”, the death of the teenager was “noted at 9:15 a.m.”, specified the Paris prosecutor’s office. Most of the students had already entered the establishment at the time of the events, specified the mayor of the 13th arrondissement, Jerome Coumet, present on site. At the end of the morning, the street in front of the establishment was cordoned off by the police, noted an AFP journalist. A duty magistrate from the public prosecutor’s office went to the site and a investigation for murder was entrusted to the Paris territorial security. “Security of the sector was put in place on the instructions of the Paris police prefect” Laurent Nunez, specified the police source. – “The worst fight” – “Me it’s been a long time since I turns here, here he has already had a few fights but this one is the worst that has been recorded,” Adam Gharsallah, 18, a resident of the neighborhood, told AFP. “There have already been fights, but this is the worst fight, it’s a murder.” Between 2022 and 2023, fights between rival gangs increased by 10% in the Paris metropolitan area, reaching 413 incidents against 375, according to information communicated by the Paris police headquarters. There were 4 deaths in 2023 compared to 3 in 2022. The number of injuries increased by 26% and that of the use of a weapon (of any kind) increased by 22.5% between 2022 and 2023. attacks between rival gangs are regular in Paris and Ile-de-France, leading to interventions by the police for armed gatherings of dozens of adolescents and young men and violence in meetings, not linked to drug trafficking. Several miners were seriously injured or killed during these brawls. In mid-October, Meissane, a 16-year-old teenager, was stabbed to death 900 meters from his high school in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis). This phenomenon, detailed by the Paris prosecutor’s office, makes the subject of “closed attention from specific GLTDs (local delinquency treatment groups), bringing together the Paris public prosecutor’s office, the police headquarters, the regional prefecture, the City of Paris, National Education and Judicial Protection of Youth (PJJ)”. The objective is that “the warning signs are detected as early as possible, communicated to other actors, and trigger preventive patrols as close as possible to the places of “concern”, adds the prosecution.mk-sm-mli/mat/pta
