In the middle of the afternoon, Tuesday November 12, 2024, a 17-year-old teenager died in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) “with a stab to the heart”, relate his relatives to theAFP. The city mayor sent his condolences to the family and called for don't forget “prevention” in the face of violence “which is becoming commonplace”.
“He died in the parking lot behind the bus stop, in broad daylight, in front of everyone. See how crazy people have gone? “, worries Sofiane, 30, who presents himself as a cousin of the victim and says he came from another department to support his family.
The stabbing occurred on Tuesday shortly before 5 p.m., in front of a large shopping center. Night had just fallen in the parking lot when the teenager was pronounced dead there.
Attacked by a group
According to the first elements of the investigation, he was attacked by a group of travelers getting off a bus, before being attacked by one of them who fatally stabbed him. The investigation notably follows the trail of a rivalry between young people from different neighborhoods.
The teenager lived 100 meters from the bus stop, in an HLM in the Chantepie city. Without speaking to the press, the parents received visits there all day long. And in front of the small gray building, an aunt of the victim suddenly let her excess of grief and anger overflow.
“My 17-year-old nephew was cowardly murdered with a stab to the heart,” said to theAFP Zakia, 45, explaining that he comes from a French family of Algerian origin, the grandfather having arrived at the end of the 1950s to work in construction.
“It happened to my nephew, it will happen to another. It will only be an Arab or a dead black man.” she says. “It would have been someone from another community, the ministers would be there, the president would be there, he would say “this is inconceivable and I condemn”. Well, I say: it’s inconceivable and I condemn the death of my nephew.”
In the parking lot where the murder took place, a group of young people are gathered around a car. “It’s hard,” slips one of them, “he was a guy we hung out with every day, a good guy.” Another interrupts him: “A brother of ours is dead, we don’t even want to talk.”
Violence that is becoming commonplace
The PS mayor of Sarcelles, Patrick Haddad, who came to talk with the parents, left without making a statement. Then he published a press release explaining that this homicide occurred after the injuries of three young people “last week in front of a school” et “the shooting of another a month and a half ago” at 22 years old.
This “escalation of murder” occurs “often against a backdrop of drug trafficking”, advances the mayor, who promises to “strengthen the fight against this violence” locally.
But in the face of “a violence that is becoming commonplace”il “deplores that prevention is largely absent from the government’s plan” Barnier to fight against drug trafficking, thought according to him “apart from any City policy, whose appropriations are dramatically declining”.
