A teenager was killed this Tuesday morning around 8 a.m. during a brawl near the Rodin high school, rue Corvisart, in the 13th arrondissement.
The victim, aged 16, was at school in Val-de-Marne.
The facts have been reclassified, and the investigation now focuses on the suspicion of an assassination (premeditated murder).
One person was arrested as part of the investigations.
It was 9 a.m. this Tuesday morning when the parents of students attending the Rodin middle school, located at 19 rue de Corvisart in the 13th arrondissement, received this message from the management: “Following an incident which took place in front of the establishment at 8 a.m., a young person from outside the establishment was found injured several hundred meters from the high school. The establishment is secure, classes continue normally However, screening is carried out on the high school side while the victim is evacuated. The high school students cannot currently enter.
According to a police source, a fight broke out near the establishment around 7:50 a.m. before degenerating. The participants, some of whom used tear gas, then fled, leaving the injured behind.
Another source confirms that a “group of young people not belonging to the Rodin high school were waiting this morning in front of the entrance to the establishment” and that “some of them sprayed tear gas at some of the last students.” arrived at the high school.
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Despite the care provided, the victim did not survive
Alerted to the situation, the Paris firefighters immediately went to rue Corvisart to take care of two minor injuries, one in absolute emergency, the other in relative emergency. According to our information, a building caretaker on the street provided cardiac massage to the seriously injured man who had collapsed to the ground in front of the building he takes care of before help arrived.
Despite the care provided, the victim, who was in cardio-respiratory arrest and who had head injuries, did not survive. His death was pronounced at 9:15 a.m. A knife was discovered near this young man. “The minor who died on the morning of December 17 was identified as having been born in October 2008 (aged 16), living in Ivry and attending school in Val-de-Marne,” indicated the Paris prosecutor’s office late in the afternoon.
The duty magistrate of the Paris public prosecutor’s office visited the scene. Territorial Security 75 is investigating a murder.
A person arrested
An investigation was opened in the morning for murder. The facts have been reclassified, and the investigation now focuses on the suspicion of an assassination (premeditated murder). One person was arrested.
“It is too early to say whether the person arrested on site (also born in 2008) was directly involved in this death. Investigators are carrying out all the necessary checks,” informs the prosecution.
The victim lived in Ivry
Questioned about the scene of the tragedy by TF1, the mayor of the 13th arrondissement, Jérôme Coumet, explains that the brawl would have started at “near the entrance to a square before moving to the outskirts of the high school.” “This is why we immediately asked ourselves the question of the link with the establishment but we have none at this stage and apparently there was none” declares the elected official facing the camera, adding that according to his information, the victim “came from a neighboring department”.
According to a police source, the victim is a student from the Maximilien Perret high school in Alfortville.
Contacted by TF1info, the rectorate indicates that it is, in conjunction with the regional security brigade of the Ile-de-France region, in a phase of evaluating the situation in terms of security and psychology in establishments in the district. He informs that a psychological unit has been set up within the Rodin high school.
Eight clashes in the 13th sector since May 2024
The Paris prosecutor’s office specifies that this murder, reclassified as an assassination during the day, is part of the continuity of a phenomenon of recurrent brawls between young people in the 13th arrondissement sector, where eight clashes have been noted since the month of May 2024.
“This phenomenon is the subject of close attention by specific GLTDs (local groups for the treatment of delinquency), bringing together the Paris public prosecutor’s office, the police headquarters, the regional prefecture, the city of Paris, national education and the judicial protection of youth, so that warning signs are detected as early as possible, communicated to other actors, and trigger preventive patrols as close as possible to areas of concern.underlines the Paris prosecutor’s office.
