A police armband, in Paris, in September 2019. -

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He is barely older than the victim.

Tuesday evening, just hours after the death of a 14-year-old boy stabbed in the throat during a brawl in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, Essonne, a 15-year-old young man presented himself at the police station accompanied by his mother indicating being the author of the stabbing, learned

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He also allegedly admitted stabbing a second 13-year-old teenager, who was in an absolute emergency on Tuesday evening.

"This is only the very beginning of the investigation, it will now be necessary to compare his words with the elements of the investigation, insists the prosecution.

He claims to be the author of the stab wounds, we will have to make sure that he really is.

The teenager was taken into custody in the evening, as were six other minors - aged 17 - arrested a few hours earlier on the sidelines of the brawl.

Sticks, crutches and bladed weapons

The tragedy occurred on Tuesday around 5 p.m., near the Boussy-Saint-Antoine swimming pool.

About thirty young people belonging, according to the first elements of the investigation, to two rival bands of Epinay-sous-Sénart and Quincy-sous-Sénart, in the south of the department, clashed, armed with sticks, crutches and cold steel.

If the precise reasons for this clash remain to be determined, a police source evokes "growing tensions" for several weeks in these neighborhoods.

According to the prefect of Essonne, Eric Jalon, 91 fights were identified in 2020 in the department, against 56 in 2019. Traveling in the department Tuesday evening, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced the reinforcement of 'about sixty "gendarmes in Dourdan, where the six teenagers come from suspected of having killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl who intervened in a brawl, and" thirty "police officers in Boussy-Saint-Antoine.

He also announced that he would meet at the end of the week, with his colleague from National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, all the prefects of Ile-de-France, on the issue of rival gangs.

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