In the middle of the afternoon, a 17-year-old teenager died in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise) “with a stab in the heart”his loved ones say while receiving the city’s condolences on Wednesday, November 13, the mayor called on the government not to forget “prevention” in the face of violence “that becomes common”. “He died in the parking lot behind the bus stop, in broad daylight, in front of everyone. Do you see how crazy people have gone? » Sofiane, 30, who introduces herself as the victim’s cousin, says she came from another department to support her family.
The stabbing occurred on Tuesday shortly before 5:00 p.m., in front of a large shopping center. Night had just fallen in the parking lot when the teen was pronounced dead there.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the young man was attacked by a group of travelers who were getting off a bus, before being attacked by one of them who fatally stabbed him. The investigation follows in particular the trail of a rivalry between young people from different neighborhoods.
The teenager lived 100 meters from the bus stop, in an HLM in the city of Chantepie. Without speaking to the press, the parents received visitors there throughout the day. And in front of the small gray building, an aunt of the victim suddenly let her excess of grief and anger overflow.
“My 17-year-old nephew was cowardly murdered with a stab wound to the heart”Zakia, 45, told Agence France-Presse, explaining that she comes from a French family of Algerian origin, since her grandfather arrived in the late 1950s to work in construction.
“It happened to my nephew, it will happen to another. “He will only be a dead Arab or black man.”she says. “It would have been someone from another community, there would be the ministers, there would be the president, he would say “this is inconceivable and I condemn it.” Well, I say: it is inconceivable and I condemn the death of my nephew. »
Social networks “matrix” them
According to her family, the victim’s mother absolutely wanted to leave the neighborhood. “for a long time”. “His mother did everything for him, you know that.”the aunt says to the silent young people gathered in front of the building. “These young people are abandoned by the system. They were herded into the cities, they are all victims, but they are too young to understand it! »he assures.
Sofiane, the cousin, sees a strong influence of social networks in this crime: “Young people are willing to do anything to be seen on social networks. It is the networks that “matrix” them [placent sous emprise]. » “Before, fights were done with punches and sticks. “Now it’s with knives.”he laments.
In the parking lot where the murder took place, a group of young people are gathered around a car. “It’s difficultslide one of them. He was a guy we hung out with every day, a good guy. » Another interrupts him: “One of our brothers is dead, we don’t even want to talk. »
The prevention of violence, “largely absent from the government plan”, according to the mayor of Sarcelles
The mayor of the PS of Sarcelles, Patrick Haddad, who had come to speak with the parents, left without making a statement. He then published a press release explaining that this homicide occurred after the injuries of three young people. “last week in front of a school” AND “the shooting of another a month and a half ago,” 22 years.
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This “escalation of murders” occurs “often in a context of drug trafficking,” the mayor advances, who promises “strengthen the fight against this violence at the local level.”
But in front of “Violence that is becoming common”he “It regrets that prevention is largely absent from the Government’s plan” of Michel Barnier to fight against drug trafficking, he thought, according to him, “outside any city policy, whose credits are decreasing dramatically”.
