Illustration of the Beaugrenelle district after the assault on Yuriy, a 15-year-old teenager, on January 15, on the Beaugrenelle slab in Paris.

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Two new suspects had been taken into police custody in the morning.

This Friday evening, the Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz announces that eight minors and one adult, suspected of having participated in the assault in mid-January in the 15th arrondissement of Paris of young Yuriy, 15, will be presented to a judge on Saturday. 'instruction in connection with the opening of a judicial investigation.

"At the end of their custody, eight minors and one adult were referred this Friday, January 29, 2021 to the Paris judicial court for the purpose of opening a judicial investigation on Saturday, January 30, 2021", announced in a communicated the prosecutor, about this open investigation in particular of the count of attempted voluntary homicide.

Young people aged 15 to 18

On January 28 and 29, 2021, eleven minors, aged 15 to 17, and one adult, aged 18, mainly domiciled in Vanves (92), were placed in police custody for the counts of attempted assassination, association criminals for the commission of a crime and theft in a meeting, says the prosecutor.

"They are suspected of having formed a group in order to prepare violent collective action against another group of people in reaction to a previous brawl, of having committed violence against Yuriy in this context and of having stole his cell phone.

The previous scene of violence that took place on January 10 at Port Javel in the 15th arrondissement of Paris is the subject of a separate investigation entrusted to the 3rd district of judicial police, ”he adds in his press release.

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