During a press conference this Monday evening, Stephen Hervé, mayor (LR) of Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis), returned to the tragedy that grieved his city last Friday. He spoke of “a horrible act, but an isolated act which does not tarnish the image of the city. The Bondynois have shown great solidarity and great generosity, ”hammered the elected, who announced that a white march will be held Wednesday in memory of Aymane.
The 15-year-old was shot and killed late Friday afternoon while in the Nelson-Mandela Recreation Center. The city decided to file a complaint. “We will be a civil party because the victim died in a building in the town,” said the mayor.
Three days after the murder, the city is still in shock. In the first hours which followed the tragedy, the municipality had set up a psychological cell to listen to all the people who had directly witnessed the violence but also to the inhabitants traumatized by the news. The mayor also visited the family of the victim to support him and accompany him in the procedures for the funeral. Indeed, the young Aymane will be buried in Algeria, the country of his parents.
This Wednesday will be a day dedicated to meditation. A wreath will be placed in front of the Mandela space where Aymane lost her life. “This will be followed at 4 pm by a white march to say stop to violence,” said the mayor. It will start from the Nelson-Mandela space and end at the town hall.
“My students are all my children”
There will be in the crowd his relatives, many young people and his friends from the boxing club, Chris’ Fight Bondy (which has 340 licensees) where Aymane trained regularly. Among them, Christophe Hamza, his coach. He admits to having been devastated by the death of this promising student he had been training for 3 years. “My students are all my children. I am their coach, their father, their mother, their brother. “
Two men of 27 and 17 years old were brought on Monday before a magistrate of the Bobigny court for “murder”. They were indicted and imprisoned. These two brothers surrendered to the police on Saturday morning. The older man had fired by shooting through the slot in the mailbox of the Nelson-Mandela Center, a structure where animators and other children were at that time, but also Aymane’s father. After an altercation at the beginning of the afternoon with the two brothers, they had found refuge in the leisure center.
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