The Elysee had "an exchange" with the mother of Yuriy, a 15-year-old teenager who was violently beaten on January 15 in Paris, we learned on Sunday in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron.

The investigation continues to find out what happened that day, when a dozen young people attacked him.

The Elysée had "an exchange" with the mother of Yuriy, a 15-year-old teenager who was violently beaten on January 15 in Paris, we learned Sunday in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron, while the investigation continues.

Several celebrities including footballer Antoine Griezmann and actor Omar Sy were moved on Saturday by the fate of this teenager, still hospitalized in serious condition.

They reacted in particular to a video which Yuriy's family confirmed was that of his assault on January 15, which was widely shared on social networks where it sparked outrage.

The facts happened in the 15th arrondissement

We see a dozen young people in sportswear and hooded jackets kicking, bat or stick on a person lying on the ground on a square lit by streetlights, before abandoning him lying.

According to his mother, Nataliya Kruchenyk, Yuriy was with a group of friends after graduating from college near the Beaugrenelle shopping center, a business district in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, plush and known to be peaceful, when they were " surprised by a bunch of young people arriving from who knows where ".

Witnesses spoke of a brawl between rival gangs, without being able to say whether or not the victim was part of one of them.