Two 15-year-old teenagers arrested after the discovery of the young girl’s body in the Seine.
The emotion is palpable in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise), after the violent death of a 14-year-old girl, found immersed Monday evening in the Seine. The girl would have been “beaten and thrown” to the water by two 15-year-old high school students, who were arrested and placed in custody, we learned Tuesday from police and judicial sources.
According to the account of the mother of one of the two suspects, her 15-year-old son left his home that day accompanied by his girlfriend of the same age at around 1 pm – 1:30 pm When the couple returned in the afternoon – midday, the young man is agitated and his clothes seem stained with blood. The high school students lock themselves in his room for an hour. “My son changed, and when he came out (around 4 p.m., Editor’s note) he asked me if I had done any big mistakes in my life, testified Nathalie, on Europe 1. I told him yes and asked why he was asking me this question. It was there that he told me he had typed a small one. “ The mother then went to the scene, quai de Saint-Denis, in Argenteuil. On the spot, she discovers a glove which would belong, according to her, to her son’s girlfriend, with a lock of hair. She then returns to her home and realizes that the two teenagers are missing.
“Traces of beatings”
The mother then takes refuge with a neighbor who convinces her to notify the police. “I sold my son”, testified, moved the mother of the suspect on Europe 1. It is 7:30 pm.
Upon arriving at the family home, relate 20 Minutes, officials discover a bloody handkerchief at the foot of the building and bloodstained clothes in the high school student’s room. Half an hour later, the parents of the victim push open the door of the Argenteuil police station to report the disappearance of their 14-year-old daughter. They think of a runaway.
At 9 p.m., the teenager’s body was found on Quai Saint-Denis. It was submerged in a meter of water, near the Gennevilliers viaduct, an imposing road structure. “The examination of the body by a forensic doctor on site revealed the presence of traces of blows to the head and face. The autopsy should make it possible to precisely determine the causes of death”, specifies the parquet floor of Pontoise. The presence of a large blood stain was also noted by investigators on the wharf. The two alleged perpetrators were located and arrested around 2 a.m. at the home of another minor. Neither they nor the victim were known to justice. They would all be educated at the Cognacq-Jay vocational high school in Argenteuil, where the Versailles academy announced the establishment of a listening cell.
The mother of the deceased teenager explained that her daughter was being harassed.
According to some students, cited by The Parisian, the trio were in conflict over intimate images of the victim that were allegedly broadcast without her consent.
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