Aggression of Yuriy: five young people targeted for "attempted assassination"
The slab of Beaugrenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris where the attack on young Yuriy took place on January 15, 2021. AFP - THOMAS COEX
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The Paris prosecutor's office said on Saturday that it had opened a judicial information concerning the assault in mid-January of the young Yuriy and a source close to the file indicated that the indictment of nine young people, including five for "attempted murder", was required.
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A judicial investigation was opened today on the counts of attempted assassination and complicity in the attempted murder, participation in a criminal association with a view to preparing a crime and theft with violence resulting in total incapacity for work. greater than eight days
”against five young people, said the Paris prosecutor's office.
In total, nine young people are today indicted.
Eight minors and one adult, suspected of having participated
in the aggression of young Yuriy
, in mid-January in Paris, were presented this Saturday to an examining magistrate as part of this judicial information, the prosecutor announced on Friday. of Paris Rémy Heitz in a press release.
According to a source close to the case, the Paris prosecutor's office is asking for the indictment of five of these young people for "attempted murder" and a sixth for "complicity in the attempted murder".
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Requests for placement in pre-trial detention were taken against six minors and one adult
", while the placement under judicial supervision was requested for the two remaining minors, further indicated the prosecution.
Eleven minors placed in police custody
Eleven minors, aged 15 to 17, and an adult, aged 18, mainly domiciled in Vanves (92), had been placed in police custody Thursday and Friday.
Three have been released without prosecution at this point.
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They are suspected of having formed a group in order to prepare a violent collective action against another group of people in reaction to a previous brawl
" on January 10, in the 15th arrondissement, which itself makes the 'subject of a separate investigation, the prosecutor said.
The appearances before an examining magistrate then before a judge of freedoms and detention were to end in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
A 15-year-old college student, Yuriy was taken to hospital in serious condition after being severely beaten on the evening of January 15.
He was then with friends on the slab of Beaugrenelle, the converted roof of a shopping center in the 15th arrondissement, a wealthy district of the capital.
The broadcast on social networks on January 22 of about twenty seconds of images of his attack had caused a stir, within the political class
as among celebrities.
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AFP
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