Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: Loic Venance/AFP 7:57 p.m., March 28, 2024
Two minors were indicted this Thursday in Chartres for "violence in a meeting with a weapon" and "attempted intentional homicide" on a 17-year-old high school student, so the vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy. The two detained in police custody “admitted to having participated in the facts”. The prosecution requested their placement in pre-trial detention.
Two minors aged 16 were indicted on Thursday in Chartres for "violence in a meeting with a weapon" and "attempted intentional homicide" on a 17-year-old high school student whose vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy, announced the prosecution of Chartres.
A scene filmed by one of the attackers
Arrested shortly after the attack on Tuesday, "the two in custody admitted to having participated in the facts, but they specified that they had not intended to kill the victim, but had wanted to take revenge, by making him of evil', previous episodes of which they had been victims", specified the prosecutor Frédéric Chevallier in a press release.
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The injured young man was able to be heard by investigators and said he knew one of his attackers, the magistrate said. After a chase, they managed to catch up with him on Tuesday and one of them "hit him with a knife three times (...). This scene was filmed by the second with his mobile phone and disseminated quickly,” according to the prosecutor’s press release.
The two indictees were to be presented on Thursday evening before the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD). The prosecution requested their placement in pre-trial detention, indicated Frédéric Chevallier.