Ten young people, suspected of belonging to a band from eastern Paris involved in a deadly fight in October 2018, were indicted for murder. Nine of them were remanded in Paris.
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On the night of 23-24 October 2018, a 17-year-old boy died of his wounds after being stabbed in a rival gang brawl on Mortier Boulevard in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The brawl had pitted young people from the Place des Fêtes and the Fougères district. Three other young people between the ages of 17 and 20 had been arrested on the day of the incident. Quickly indicted but for reasons less heavy, they had been left free under judicial control.
A brawl between bands in eastern Paris
The 10 young people, mostly minors, were indicted on 3 and 9 October for "murder", as well as for "participation in an armed gathering" and "degradation of private property". "They are suspected of being on the scene and belonging to the rival band of that of the victim," said a source close to the case.
Band rivalry in the east of Paris and the northern suburbs of the capital have been responsible for several teenage deaths in recent years. Last week, a 15-year-old student was stabbed to death at the entrance of a stadium in Lilac, a year after the death of a 13-year-old schoolboy after a gang fight in the neighboring commune of east of the capital.