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A police car in intervention, January 15, 2019, in Paris.

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Clément Follain / 20 Minutes

Several celebrities including footballer Antoine Griezmann and actor Omar Sy were moved on Saturday by the fate of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten up last week in Paris and hospitalized in serious condition.

They reacted in particular to a video presented as being that of Yuriy's aggression, widely shared on social networks where it sparked outrage.

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

Unbearable images 😤.

Force yourself Yuriy and get well.

- Antoine Griezmann (@AntoGriezmann) January 23, 2021

“Unbearable images.

Force yourself Yuriy and get well, ”Antoine Griezmann tweeted on Saturday.

"Good recovery to you Yuriy, I think of you and yours", for his part wrote Omar Sy on the social network.

“Images as violent as they are unbearable.

By a fucking bunch of cowards!

All my support for Yuriy and his family, ”swimmer Amaury Leveaux tweeted.

An attack of incredible savagery.

Support for the young boy and his family.

The investigation should shed light on the facts and challenge the perpetrators of this foul act.

https://t.co/5RE51fReaF

- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 23, 2021

"An attack of incredible savagery", for his part denounced, still on Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, while an investigation for "attempted murder in a meeting" was opened on the day of facts.

“Support for the young boy and his family.

The investigation should shed light on the facts and question the perpetrators of this filthy act, ”added the Minister.

A brawl between rival gangs

According to reports from his relatives to the press, the young man was with a group of friends on Friday after leaving college when they were assaulted by a gang of young people near the Beaugrenelle shopping center.

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

According to a source close to the investigation, Yuriy found himself isolated in the middle of a group who badly beat him and left him in serious condition.

“I arrived when he was in the fire truck, he was in terrible condition.

They opened his skull, they broke his arm, finger, shoulder and ribs, ”the victim's mother told BFMTV.

"His condition is stable, but above all what is hard is that we do not know how we will find him, if he will come back among us as he was before", she added, launching a call for witnesses to find the aggressors and "so that no child suffers what [his] son ​​has suffered".

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