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The death on Saturday April 27 of the teenager, the victim of stabbings, deeply shocked young people in the town of Indre.
There are no longer any yellow plastic banners at the corner of rue Albert Aurier. We stuck flowers in the gutter, lit candles and even drew a heart in chalk on the orange plaster. The crime scene turned into a mausoleum. On the way, in the empty streets of Châteauroux (Indre), this Tuesday, we came across two teenagers, white roses between their fingers. “This is all weird.” Last year, Matisse, 16 years old, “a nice person”, they repeat three times, was in their class. Today he is dead. Saturday, April 27, late in the afternoon, another 15-year-old boy stabbed him several times in the chest, in a quiet, residential area of the city. Since then, the news has been circulating on social networks. “We were shocked,” said Alexandre (1), reddened skin, shifty gaze. Hidden behind his long brown hair, his friend Arthur nods. “We didn’t think that something so serious could happen at home, in Châteauroux.”
Monday evening, the public prosecutor in Bourges, Céline Visiedo, who took over the case, announced the placement in pre-trial detention of the young suspect, now indicted for “murder”. During his hearing, he explained that he had initially “received a blow from po
