France: shock over death of teenager after brutal beating after class

A 15-year-old teenager died this Friday as a result of a brutal attack that occurred the day before after leaving class in Francewhere the president Emmanuel Macron He charged against “uninhibited violence.”

The victim attacked by several people on Thursday in Viry-Châtillon about 20 kilometers south of Paris died, announced the Évry prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation for murder.

This aggression shocked France two days after another brutal beating against a 14-year-old girl in Montpellier in the south of the country, who in his case managed to come out of his coma.

The schools “they must continue to be a sanctuary” in the face of “a form of uninhibited violence among our adolescents”he claimed Macron during a visit to a school in Paris before learning of the death.

The mayor of Viry-Châtillon, Jean-Marie Vilainhad assured that the attackers tried to “massacre” to the victim and warned of a “ultraviolencia” that transforms “in something habitual.”

“Investigations continue to determine the circumstances of these criminal acts and allow the arrest of the perpetrators”the prosecutor of Evry, Grégoire Dulin.

In the case of Montpelliera 15-year-old teenager and two minors under 14, including one who studied at the same center as the victim, acknowledged having “struck” and they were detained, according to the prosecutor’s office of this city, which requested preventive detention for the older woman.

“It seems that this aggression occurs in the context of a group of teenagers who used to insult each other” on social networks and publish photos, indicated the prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Belargent specifying that the investigations continue.

In the media, the victim’s mother claimed that her daughter suffered bullying at school, especially by a classmate, and that this could be due to a conflict over his way of dressing and their religious practices.

The Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, commissioned an administrative investigation to draw all the necessary conclusions from the tragedy. “We have a very strong anti-harassment policy.”, he stressed.

The fight against bullying is one of the priorities of the president’s center-right government Emmanuel Macron which also seeks to reinforce “authority” in the school.