A 16-year-old teenager was stabbed to death Tuesday morning, December 17 near the Rodin high school in the 13th arrondissement of Paris during a brawl between rival gangs, increasingly frequent clashes in the capital. Provence returns to the matter.
The events took place shortly after 8:00 a.m. near the school, during a fight, “at the foot of a building near square René-Le Gall in the 13th century“district, specified the ministry.
A minor injured in the head
When the police arrived, “the protagonists had fled“, declared a police source. A minor “was in cardio-respiratory arrest (…) with head injuries“, added the prosecution, specifying that a “knife had been discovered near him”.
“En despite Samu's resuscitation attempts“, the death of the teenager has”was observed at 9:15 a.m.“, he clarified.
Who is the victim?
According to the Ministry of National Education, the victim is 16 years old and was attending a vocational high school in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne).
A murder investigation was entrusted to Paris territorial security.
A mobile security team, the regional security brigade, and a psychological support cell “both in support of the educational community and the students“, were deployed, the ministry said.
An increase in brawls in the Paris metropolitan area
“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“, detailed the Paris prosecutor's office.
Between 2022 and 2023, brawls between rival gangs increased by 10% in the Paris metropolitan area, reaching 413 incidents compared to 375, according to information communicated by the Paris police headquarters. There were four deaths in 2023 compared to three 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.
“It's a new drama in front of a school” Who “confirms that there is an issue surrounding the treatment of fights between gangs and this cannot only be a matter of the School“, reacted to AFP Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of the SNES-FSU union.
“IWe need an interministerial policy (education, security, housing and youth, editor's note) aimed at young people, to address the issue of rivalries between gangs at the root.“, she added.
Several miners were seriously injured or killed during these clashes between rival gangs. In mid-October, Meissane, 16, was stabbed to death 900 meters from his high school in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
This phenomenon, detailed the prosecution, is the subject of a “tighter attention of 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 the judicial protection of youth (PJJ)“.
