A 15-year-old boy was seriously injured after being hit with a hammer in Essonne.
The victim was beaten on Friday in front of his high school in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, said a source close to the case, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
"We think it's a new episode of brawls between young people, with here a rivalry between young people from Saint-Michel-sur-Orge and Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois", two neighboring towns located about thirty kilometers away south of Paris, this source said, describing the attack as "very violent and very brief".
"It was group against group, it would seem that he was isolated and taken to task", indicated a police source, confirming that the victim had "in particular received hammer blows".
The young man was operated on and placed in an artificial coma, with a poor vital prognosis.
The alleged hammer still wanted.
Two young people were killed in less than twenty-four hours
Brawls between gangs of young rivals, with frequent but rarely fatal clashes, greatly affect Île-de-France and particularly the department of Essonne, where two young people were killed in less than twenty-four hours during two brawls. distinct in February.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, 357 clashes between gangs were recorded in 2020 against 288 in 2019, an increase of nearly 25%.
In Essonne, the figure rose from 56 to 91 between these two years.
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