They do not hide their dismay. Several members of the government reacted after the death of Elias, a 14-year-old young man killed in Paris after being stabbed Friday evening by two minors aged 16 and 17 who tried to steal his cell phone.
“He was going to football practice. Two older minors want to extort him, steal his cell phone. They stabbed him in the shoulder, he died from his wound. These lines are unbearable to write,” recalled the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, on his X account, before condemning a “feeling of impunity” and “adolescent violence”.
For his part, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, announced, on the same social network, that he was going to bring together this Monday in Paris “all the Prosecutors General and the Prosecutors of the Republic, placed under (his) authority , in order to give them the penal policy instructions to implement.”
In a circular which will be published the same evening, he will “assign them two priorities which will allow them to provide a rapid and firm criminal response”, specified the Minister of Justice. “The unacceptable acts of violence in recent days and weeks require us collectively to achieve this objective,” he commented.
-According to the prosecution, the two minors arrested in this case “were already known to the courts”. They were both presented to court on October 30, 2024 for acts of theft committed with violence and were prohibited from coming into contact with each other.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, said on Saturday that he was “horrified by this gratuitous violence, the result of a loss of bearings and the collapse of authority”, denouncing X as an act of “barbarians” . The same day, Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture and mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, called for “the deployment of an armed municipal police force”.
Outside of the government, other members of the political class reacted to the tragedy which took place in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. “I am revolted, both as a political leader and as a mother, by this tragedy which is not a news item but is, by its repetition and its nature, a social fact,” Valérie, for example, criticized this Sunday Pécresse, the president (LR) of the Ile-de-France region, calling for a “shock of authority”.
