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The Angoulême prosecutor, Stéphanie Aouine, said she had requested pre-trial detention against one of the two, aged 17.

Friday, the magistrate had mentioned "a logic of settling scores with regard to the minor victim, targeted by the tear gas bomb" in the toilets of the establishment. 

Two teenagers "will be prosecuted for acts of aggravated violence, committed in a meeting" after the intrusion Thursday morning into a high school in Angoulême, during which a student and a teacher were injured, the prosecutor's office said on Saturday.

The Angoulême prosecutor Stéphanie Aouine specifies, in a press release, having requested placement in pre-trial detention against one of the two, aged 17, "already known to the justice services and also finding himself in non-compliance with his precedent judicial review pronounced in the context of a case for similar facts".

For the second, aged 15 and with no criminal record, she requested “placement under judicial supervision with educational support and a ban on remaining in Charente”.

Brawls in other high schools in the suburbs of Angoulême

Friday, the magistrate had mentioned "a logic of settling scores with regard to the minor, victim targeted by the tear gas bomb" in the toilets of the establishment, during an intercourse Thursday morning.

A physical education and sports teacher had also received a blow while trying to intervene, but the two young people involved assured that she "was absolutely not targeted", Stéphanie Aouine clarified on Friday.

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The police had to intervene two other times on Friday for attacks or brawls that occurred in front of other high schools in the suburbs of Angoulême.

The magistrate specified on Saturday that she had extended four of the five police custody started on Friday after "the attack on a student by several young people who also filmed the scene" in Soyaux, "in order to allow the continuation of investigations and the possible presentation of the perpetrators to the prosecution".

The fifth, however, was lifted.

The flagrant investigation continues into the attack on a 16-year-old boy injured in the scalp by several individuals in front of an establishment in Ruelle-sur-Touvre, according to the same source.