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 minors were indicted Thursday, in particular for "attempted assassination", in the investigation into the assault in mid-January in Paris of young Yuriy, we learned on Saturday from a judicial source who confirmed information from the

Parisian

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This brings to 11 the number of indicted in this case which has aroused turmoil within the political class and among several celebrities.

According to the judicial source, two minors spontaneously presented themselves Tuesday and Wednesday to the 3rd district of the judicial police of Paris.

At the end of their police custody, they were indicted by an examining magistrate for "attempted murder", "theft with violence" and "participation in a criminal association".

They were placed under judicial control.

Five people remanded in custody

On January 31, nine young people had already been indicted in this investigation, including five for "attempted murder" and a sixth for "complicity".

Of these nine people, five had been remanded in custody.

On the evening of January 15, Yuriy, a 15-year-old college student, was taken to hospital in serious condition after being severely beaten on the slab of Beaugrenelle, the roof of a shopping center in the 15th arrondissement, a district well-off from the capital, where he was with friends. 

On January 22, about twenty seconds of images of his assault were broadcast on social networks.

We see a dozen young people in hooded jackets kicking and beating, or sticks, before abandoning it.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Yuriy had "a screwdriver in his pocket" during his assault.

The gang phenomenon in Paris

At the end of January, the Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz had indicated in a press release that the young people involved were "suspected of having formed a group in order to prepare violent collective action against another group of people in reaction to a previous brawl ”, on January 10, in the 15th arrondissement, which itself is the subject of a separate investigation, and“ to have committed violence against Yuriy in this context and to have stolen his cell phone ” .

Yuriy's beating shone the spotlight on gang phenomena in the capital.

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