While Essonne was the scene of two brawls between gangs these last two days, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin went to Dourdan where he announced that he had deployed reinforcements. “I asked a hundred additional police and gendarmes to come to the department this evening so that things could calm down and so that there could be no aftershocks or new confrontations and to prepare for the back to school in the greatest security ”, he declared on BFMTV.
Gérald Darmanin, however, insisted on the idea that“We cannot always turn to society, to the police or the mayor, the parental role is important”. “We must put the authority of parents forward”, he insisted, emphasizing their “Duty of authority”.
Social networks singled out
Gérald Darmanin mentioned a “Security challenge” against “These bands which multiply”.
The Minister of the Interior pointed to the mimicry of social networks.
“Social networks and their mimicry often contribute to these confrontations, to this rise in mimetic violence, messaging, Telegram, WhatsApp which make it possible to escape the usual surveillance of the police and the gendarmerie”, did he declare.
Gérald Darmanin has also indicated that he will bring together the prefects of Ile-de-France at the end of the week to work on a “Improvement of what can be done », Because according to him, it is in Ile-de-France that “90% of these fights between young adolescents exist and sometimes end dramatically”.
Two deadly brawls in 24 hours
A teen died on Tuesday following another clash between two gangs of young people in Essonne, less than 24 hours after the death in this department a 14-year-old college girl, injured during a fight between minors.
The boy was killed “Most likely from a stab in the stomach”, near the Boussy-Saint-Antoine swimming pool, told theAFP the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of Essonne. Another teenager was injured in the throat during the fight and was taken by helicopter to a hospital. According to a police source, at least six arrests took place. The brawl opposed “About forty young people” from Epinay-sous-Sénart and Quincy-sous-Sénart, said the same source.
Already Monday, in Essonne, an altercation had broken out between a dozen young people from Dourdan and Saint-Chéron, on the outskirts of the college of this small town of 5,000 inhabitants, located near Etampes. A teenage girl was then stabbed in the stomach. She died on the night of Monday to Tuesday in the hospital.
For this clash in Saint-Chéron, at least six minors were taken into custody: three arrested and three others who had surrendered to the police, according to a source familiar with the matter.
An investigation was opened by the Evry prosecutor’s office for murder of a 15-year-old minor and violence in meetings and entrusted to the Paris research section.
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