Two days after the tragedy, a 15-year-old teenager was indicted Monday evening for “murder” and placed in pre-trial detention, according to the Bourges public prosecutor’s office. On Saturday, young Matisse was stabbed to death in Châteauroux.
His mother, presented alongside him on Monday before the judge, was indictment for “intentional violence” against “vulnerable person”, specified the public prosecutor of Bourges, Céline Visiedo, indicating that she had “slapped the victim”. Both the mother and the son are of Afghan nationality and in a legal situation on the national territory”, according to the same Source. They were presented at the end of the afternoon before an investigating judge from the criminal division of the Bourges judicial court.
The young Matisse, aged 16 according to the prosecutor, succumbed to his injuries, notably a wound in the heart on Saturday after “a brawl involving two minors” late Saturday afternoon in the St-Denis district of this town of some 43,000 inhabitants. According to the first elements of the investigation, “the two minors knew each other and had insulted each other before the events”, explains the press release.
Several stab wounds
On the day of the murder, the minor indicted claims that he received a punch from the victim and that “taken by anger, he went to his building to grab a knife blade, and delivered several stab wounds“to Matisse before fleeing, details the magistrate.
The investigation will notably have to “clarify the origin of the brawl and the personality of the author” of the fatal blows. This minor has no convictions on his criminal record but he was indicted on April 22 for violent theft in a meeting by a judge in Châteauroux. He had been placed under judicial supervision.
While several right-wing and far-right personalities have denounced the government’s “migratory policy” due to the Afghan nationality of the perpetrator of the attacks, Matisse’s father, Christophe Marchais, warned against any political recovery. “Let’s not mix things up. Be careful of all the right-wing and non-right-wingers who appropriate this sort of thing.“, he declared on RTL.
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