Murder of a teenager in Bondy: two brothers presented to a judge

Two brothers, aged 17 and 27, were presented Monday to an examining magistrate in Bobigny in Seine-Saint-Denis for the murder of a 15-year-old teenager, killed Friday by a bullet in a neighborhood house in Bondy, announced the prosecution.

The two brothers, identified by witnesses, presented themselves to the investigating services on Saturday and had been placed in police custody.

The prosecution requested their placement in pre-trial detention.

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The 15-year-old Aymane was killed on Friday afternoon while inside a neighborhood house.

A bullet, fired from the outside through the letterbox crack of the center door, hit the boy in the chest, according to preliminary findings.

"A dispute has opposed the victim and his attackers for nearly a year without the origin being, for the time being, known," the prosecution reported on Saturday.

"A falling out" linked to a boxing rivalry

According to testimonies collected by AFP in the district of the minor, residents say that it is a "quarrel" linked to a rivalry in boxing, a sport that Aymane practiced assiduously in a club before the health restrictions due to the pandemic.

According to the same source, a first altercation had opposed the victim and the two implicated Friday in the neighborhood house.

Then Aymane's father came to pick up his son, but a second altercation had pitted him against the two individuals who remained nearby.

"The last word that [Aymen] told me was 'daddy I'm in pain'", the father, Ahmed Kaid, who had seen his son die in his arms told France 3.

The Paris region has already been marked on February 22 and 23 by the death of two 14-year-old teenagers in another department, Essonne, where a girl and a boy were stabbed during different brawls between young people from rival gangs.