A 19-year-old lost his life on Sunday evening after being hit a few days earlier, probably during a fight between five people in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, about thirty kilometers south of Paris.

This death comes in a context of rivalries between gangs from two neighboring towns of Essonne.

A 19-year-old young man died Sunday evening a few days after being violently beaten in a context of rivalries between gangs from two neighboring towns of Essonne, we learned Monday from concordant sources.

Leader of a district of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (Essonne), the young man had been seriously hit on the head and on the body during the night of Thursday to Friday "in the heart of the rival district" of Sainte-Geneviève- des-Bois, about thirty kilometers south of Paris, according to a police source, confirming information from the newspaper

Le Parisien

.

A probable brawl between five people

Hospitalized and placed in a coma since Thursday, he died Sunday early evening, confirmed the prosecution could not give details on the investigation entrusted to the departmental security of Essonne. According to a second police source, a fight would have pitted five people. At the end of May, in the same context of rivalries between gangs, a 15-year-old teenager was violently hit with a hammer in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge. Out of business, he had been placed in an artificial coma for several days. Two minors aged 16 and 17 were indicted for "attempted murder" and imprisoned in this investigation.

Brawls between bands of young rivals, with frequent but rarely fatal clashes, greatly affect Île-de-France and particularly the department of Essonne, where two young people were killed in less than 24 hours during two separate brawls in February.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, 357 clashes between gangs were recorded in 2020 against 288 in 2019, an increase of nearly 25%.

In Essonne, the figure rose from 56 to 91 between these two years.

Measures announced by the government

In mid-June, the government presented a series of measures to fight brawls between young people. Among them are the extension of the reception hours of leisure centers until 8 p.m. in "areas marked by long commuting times between home and work" or the "creation" of social worker positions in police stations and gendarmeries. .