They are suspected of having tasered and lead shot at 12-year-old boys. This Saturday, in Créteil, in Val-de-Marne, five adolescents were indicted for “aggravated violence” or “complicity in aggravated violence”, including one also for “attempted murder”.
Two of them were remanded in custody. The other three, under judicial supervision, were notably prohibited from going to Créteil.
According to a source close to the investigation, the charges stem from a rivalry between gangs of young people in this city located 12 kilometers south-east of Paris. Special case: the alleged violence did not take place between rival neighborhoods, but between minors from the same neighborhood. “Within the same gang, the older ones found that the younger ones had not been strong enough” against a rival neighborhood, and “decided to toughen up the younger ones with violence”.
Filmed humiliations
The story begins with a first desire for “humiliation”. At the end of February, young people from the Bleuets district push 12-year-old boys, who live in the “rival” district of Echat, to “lower their pants” and “sing insults” about their own district. Filmed, their “humiliation” is broadcast on the Snapchat social network.
In reaction, teenagers from the district of Echat have decided to “exercise violence” these 12-year-old boys, considered too weak against the Bleuets. They would then have made them do push-ups, undress, and injured them by taser and pellet gun fire. All once again filmed.
One of the abused boys forced to move out
The investigation, entrusted to the Territorial Security of Val-de-Marne, follows the complaint of one of the two children. According to a police source, these two boys “very strongly abused” are “still under pressure” from other adolescents in their neighborhood. “One of them even had to move to the provinces urgently,” this source told AFP.
Of the five young people indicted on Saturday, and previously not “specially” known to the police, four are 16 years old, one is 17 years old.
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