A 15-year-old boy in France has died within the hospital on Friday, a day after he was attacked by a gaggle of individuals after a music lesson at college.
A homicide investigation has now been opened, regional prosecutor Gregoire Dulin mentioned on Friday afternoon.
The incident occurred in the city of Viry-Chatillon, situated round 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the capital, Paris.
Media cited prosecutors as saying the assault was carried out by masked youths.
Police on Friday afternoon detained 5 individuals linked to the assault, together with three 17-year-olds, one 15-year-old and a 20-year-old, prosecutors mentioned.
Thursday’s assault got here simply two days after a teenage lady was left briefly comatose following an assault exterior her college within the south of the nation.
What do we all know in regards to the assaults?
A police supply mentioned the boy was crushed by a number of individuals who then fled the scene.
He was present in a road “not removed from his college,” in line with prosecutors.
The mayor of Viry-Chatillon, Jean-Marie Vilain, mentioned the sufferer was taken to the Necker pediatric hospital in Paris.
Police mentioned that the boy had suffered cardiorespiratory arrest.
The attackers “tried to bloodbath him,” mentioned Vilain, describing them as “the worst type of thugs.”
“This excessive violence is changing into commonplace,” he added, saying that surveillance cameras would possibly present helpful info in figuring out the attackers.
Earlier, on Tuesday, a teenage lady aged 13 or 14 was attacked exterior her college within the southern metropolis of Montpellier.
Prosecutors mentioned the lady, who briefly fell right into a coma, was “significantly injured.”
Three alleged attackers, considered one of them a woman from the identical college who has confessed her guilt, have been arrested on suspicion of tried homicide of a minor.
Macron says colleges should be ‘shielded’ from violence
French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned on Friday that colleges needs to be shielded from the type of violence that has been seen in the previous few days, whereas visiting a main college in Paris.
“We have now a type of uninhibited violence amongst our youngsters and generally amongst more and more youthful ones. Colleges want to be shielded from this,” Macron mentioned.
“Faculty should stay a sanctuary for our kids, for his or her households, for our lecturers.”
“We can be intransigent in opposition to all types of violence,” he mentioned, including that the investigation ought to make clear each incidents.
zc, tj/ab (AFP, dpa)
