Elias was fatally stabbed on Friday January 24 in Paris. The teenager had refused to hand over his cell phone to two minors aged 16 and 17, who were taken into police custody.
A 14-year-old teenager was fatally stabbed Friday evening in Paris after refusing to hand over his cell phone to two minors aged 16 and 17 who were taken into police custody, the prosecution said on Saturday.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he was “horrified by this gratuitous violence, the result of a loss of bearings and the collapse of authority”, denouncing X as an act of “barbarians”.
Two minors born in May 2007 and August 2008
While the 14-year-old teenager was leaving his football training shortly before 8 p.m. at the Jules Noël stadium, located in the south of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, near the ring road, “two people asked for his phone”, reported the prosecution. .
In response to his refusal, a violent stab was given to him in the shoulder, said a police source and the prosecution. A friend “performed first aid and helped identify the attackers,” added the public prosecutor.
Two minors, born in May 2007 and August 2008, living in the 14th arrondissement, were arrested and placed in police custody. Treated at the scene of the attack, the victim lost consciousness and had to be resuscitated twice before being transported by Samu to Necker hospital with a life-threatening condition, according to the police source.
“Despite medical treatment, the victim was pronounced dead around noon” on Saturday, the prosecution announced.
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The investigation, initially opened for “attempted homicide of a minor under 15 years of age and extortion with a weapon”, now concerns “the offense of extortion followed by death, a crime punishable by life imprisonment”, he said. we specified.
Known to the courts
According to the prosecution, “the two minors arrested were already known to the courts”. One was the subject of a judicial educational measure in December 2023 for acts of theft and extortion. They were both presented to court on October 30, 2024 for acts of theft committed with violence, and they were prohibited from contacting each other. The 3rd district of the Parisian judicial police is responsible for the investigation.
The victim’s football club, the PO, expressed on its site and social networks its “immense pain” after the death of this U15 player (under fifteen years old) after “a terrible attack”.
The environmentalist mayor of the 14th arrondissement Carine Petit said on BFMTV that she had received “warning signals, a little over a year ago (…), that a small group of young people was entering the sports center, attacked, violated or threatened in a more or less serious manner (…) those who came to the stadium for good reasons”.
The elected official added that she had “provided answers”, specifying that the two arrested “are already the subject of juvenile justice measures”, while noting that these measures “were not enough”.
In a press release, senator LR and former minister Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée, elected representative of the district, denounced “the ghettoization of so many neighborhoods in the 14th”, and accused Carine Petit and the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo of to hide “the serious insecurity that reigns there”.
