The eight young people between the ages of 19 and 27 are believed to have attacked Roma on Monday after rumors of kidnappings circulated on social media.

Eight people, suspected of attacking Roma after unfounded rumors on social networks kidnapping children and who were to be tried Thursday in an immediate appearance in Bobigny have been sent back their trial.

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Between 19 and 27 years old, the defendants were to be tried for "participation in a group formed to commit violence". Six of them, from Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, will be judged on May 31 and two others from Seine-Saint-Denis on June 7. They were all placed under judicial supervision, their lawyer having pleaded a "crisis of acute foolish stupidity".

"Racism background"

Around 9 pm on Monday, some 50 people armed with knives and sticks attacked Roma living along a national road, according to a police source. Vans had been burned. Other brawls erupted later that evening in this city of Seine-Saint-Denis. "Leaving Chelles to go to Bobigny, the goal of this equipment was to break the Rom," denounced the prosecutor who had asked for detention for the six from Seine-et-Marne.

"Beasts" behavior. "These people seem ordinary but there is stupidity, a background of racism," added the magistrate. Discreet in the box, most young people work or continue their studies. "How does a manager embark on such a story?" ask the president of the court. "The stupidity," answers the young man. His friend who is training as a train driver "regrets". "It's completely stupid" One of them explains having realized that it was a fake news, I inquired at the police station.