Two teenagers were beaten up on Saturday in Colomiers. Not a clash between gangs but an ambush under the background of old and very obscure rivalry between college students from Blagnac and Colomiers.
“My son is suffering from a broken nose… He received a lot of heavy beatings. The consequences could have been dramatic. A mother does not hide her anxiety 48 hours after the violence suffered by her 14-year-old son. They broke out at a bus stop in Colomiers, avenue Henri-Martre on Saturday.
Alerted by the Tisséo teams, aided by CCTV images, the police officers successively arrested six teenagers aged 13 to… 16 years old! Plus a 13-year-old girl who had recovered a dummy weapon exhibited during the violence. There was nothing virtual about the iron bars and sticks used to beat two 14-year-old boys. These injuries resulted in three and four days of legal incapacity.
No known dispute between these boys
An explanation between bands? “No,” replies the mother of one of the victims. Side investigation service, no trace of clashes between young inhabitants of Colomiers and Blagnac, who would be the aggressors of Saturday. “I had never heard of these stories or of a dispute between these boys before Saturday”, confirmed yesterday the mayor of Blagnac, Joseph Carles.
During their investigations, the police officers of the Left Bank in charge of the investigation understood that there was “an opposition” between the boys who remain, for the majority of the college students. “And who do not realize the seriousness of blows carried with an iron bar”, slips a police officer not at all convinced by a case of “gang”. “Nothing to do with the rivalries between Parisian cities”, tempers an investigator even if the suspects have already had problems with the police.
The motivation for this real ambush, not a meeting fixed in advance, remains “rather vague”. “There would have been an incident at the funfair this summer”, understands the mother of one of the victims who notes that her son had not even set foot there. Saturday, fifteen boys from Blagnac wanted in any case to do battle.
The prosecution, which followed the investigations closely, decided not to leave this confrontation without a follow-up. After the extension of police custody on Sunday, three identified assailants, aged 14 and 16, were presented to the juvenile prosecutor’s office on Monday; the other three suspects were left free pending their probable summons. A judicial investigation for “aggravated meeting violence” has in fact been opened. Justice gives itself the means to understand what happened, to quickly restore calm and avoid, thus, a new episode.
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