Barely a little over a month that we had not known an attack on a young person by other young people, in the agglomeration of Chartres. After the violence that occurred on April 28 at the agricultural school of La Saussaye in Sours, it was at the end of last week that a new scene of this kind took place. In Chartres, this time. In front of the Jean-Moulin college exit, near the city center.
A pupil of the Lycée de la Saussaye, in Sours, attacked by four young people
Friday, June 4, around 4 p.m., the police, alerted, found a schoolboy on the ground. “He had just been beaten quite violently for twenty-thirty seconds. He was, in particular, hit in the face. Hospitalized, he received three days of ITT. »
They present themselves to the police station
“When the young boy filed a complaint, he claimed that one of his attackers was armed with a hammer, but he did not want to give us their names or their number when we quickly understood that there was a liability between him and them, “says one, this Monday evening, at the Chartres police station. The “winner” of an old fight was, obviously, no longer that of Friday.
But the testimonies of two schoolgirls will make it possible to quickly advance the investigation. “They had run after the attackers and caught up with them. They knew them and gave us their names. This was obviously known and, at the end of the afternoon, the two defendants presented themselves to the police station.
Four young people, suspected of having hit a high school student and a teacher, have been arrested
Two minors aged 13 and 14, living in the districts of Beaulieu and La Madeleine, in Chartres. “They were taken into custody on Friday evening. They acknowledged the attack, confirmed the presence of a hammer, but denied having used it. »
A third minor aged 14
Their hearings put the police on the trail of a third individual, arrested on Sunday morning. He too is a minor (14 years old) and he too from La Madeleine. “He admitted having brought the hammer but, according to him, he would have just exhibited it in front of his victim. »
A short film shot in Chartres to make young people aware of the absurdity of violence between gangs
At the end of the extension of police custody, the Parquet de Chartres decided, Monday morning, to refer them to the juvenile judge. Indicted, the three teenagers will be judged.
In the continuity of the violence between bands of Chartres, Lucé and Mainvilliers
On the side of the police, who were already monitoring in an increased way the exits of course in front of several colleges and high schools of the agglomeration, the list thus lengthens. “As of this Tuesday, we will also be vigilant around the Jean-Moulin college. »
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For the police, there is no doubt that this latest fight is part of the continuity of the violence which has resurfaced regularly, for months or even years, between gangs of young people from the neighborhoods of Chartres, Lucé and Mainvilliers.
“Thirty hooded and very virulent individuals” at La Madeleine in Chartres, according to the police
For the resumption of classes, this Tuesday morning, a listening unit will be set up from 7:50 a.m., confirms the principal of the Chartrain college, David Elleaume.
Emmanuel Brown
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