ax fight; four minors indicted and imprisoned

Four minors were indicted and imprisoned for “attempted assassination” and “voluntary violence in a meeting” after the attack with an ax on the RER E on Monday, November 4, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned. , Thursday, with the Melun public prosecutor's office. According to a police source, these suspects are aged 16 and 17.

The trail of an attack linked to a rivalry between gangs from different neighboring towns is confirmed, the prosecution had previously declared.

Monday morning, around 8 a.m., four high school students, aged 15 to 17, were in the RER E. As the train arrived at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station (Seine-et-Marne), the group of attackers, made up of eight to ten people, entered the train and triggered the alarm to immobilize it.

Inside, they beat the targeted teenagers, who are used to sitting in the same place on the RER. The latter were attacked with an axe, an Opinel-type knife, tear gas and a baseball bat. They were injured in the head, arm and hand. One of them risks losing his little finger. Among the four victims, two were seriously injured and hospitalized, the other two more lightly.

The victims – minors aged 16 and 17 – were attacked on their way to high school. The main suspect, aged 16, was arrested at his home and placed in police custody, a police source told AFP. An ax was found and seized during the search.

Attacks between rival gangs are regular in Seine-et-Marne, leading to interventions by the police for armed gatherings of dozens of adolescents and young men and violence in meetings, unrelated to drug trafficking. The phenomenon is particularly developed in Ile-de-France, a region which has seen several deaths of minors in recent years.