A minor and his mother arrested after the death of a teenager

“A hard blow” for the town of Châteauroux (F), confides its mayor, Gil Avérous: after the death of a 15-year-old teenager, which occurred during a brawl on Saturday, a minor of the same age and his 37-year-old mother years must be referred Monday to the criminal justice unit.

The brawl occurred around 6 p.m. on the public highway of this town of some 43,000 inhabitants and the victim died in hospital in the evening, said the public prosecutor in Châteauroux, Agnès Auboin, in a press release sent Sunday.

If the reason for this fight was not known on Monday, a Source close to the investigation assured AFP that it “has nothing to do with Islamism, there is no religious character” . This is a “street brawl”, added a judicial Source.

While the investigation continues, the fact that the attacker is “of Afghan origin”, according to a Source close to the investigation, without further details on his nationality, has led several figures from the right and the far right to denounce the government’s “migratory policy”.

Arrested approximately two hours after the fight, the suspect, aged 15, was placed in police custody. Aged 37 and with no criminal record, the mother of the suspected teenager was also taken into police custody on Saturday evening, because she is suspected of “being involved in the acts of violence that occurred on April 27,” according to the prosecutor. .

The various right-wing mayor of the town, Gil Avérous, told the press that “this family is in a regular situation on our territory”. “The victim’s parents do not want there to be political recovery, that we talk about the RN or immigration because that does not resemble them,” he also reported.

The parents of the deceased young man, restaurateurs in the town, were in turn interviewed Monday morning by investigators, according to a close Source. “It’s very hard for the city,” Gil Avérous, who has received the support of several ministers in recent hours, told AFP.

The brawl occurred in the “Saint-Denis district, it is a classic residential area. There are a few blocks of buildings, but it is not a district which is classified as a priority policy,” underlined the mayor of the city, who lives there himself, during a press conference.

The alleged perpetrator “has never been convicted by the courts and his record is clean of any convictions,” the magistrate said on Sunday. But two criminal proceedings concerned the alleged perpetrator of this homicide, one of which for acts of aggravated theft with violence, she specified.

He had been indicted “for acts of a criminal nature” and placed under judicial supervision by an investigating judge on April 22, “the only security measure provided for by the code of Criminal Justice for minors given his age, without conviction “previous”.

Asked by a journalist about a possible insult relating to the origin of the suspect as the reason for the brawl on Saturday, the mayor replied that he had “no information” on this point. “We do not yet know all the ins and outs of this affair,” recalled Gil Avérous. Nevertheless, “the murderer, on two occasions, was arrested in recent weeks,” continued the councilor, and these facts “did not allow justice to be incarcerated.” “And a few days later, the same young person found himself in the street with a knife,” he lamented.

“The two protagonists, perpetrator and victim, are 15 years old. For me, this is proof of the wildness, of the ultra-violence that our society is experiencing among minors,” said Gil Avérous. “It is very urgent to redefine a policy in this area,” he argued.

The death of this teenager comes after several incidents of violence between young people, such as the fatal beating in Viry-Châtillon of Shemseddine, 15, near his college.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal begins on Monday his consultations with political groups around his proposals intended to stem the violence of part of the youth, including his wish in particular that disruptive students be “sanctioned” in obtaining their school diplomas .