After having subjected a series of humiliations, filmed and broadcast on social networks, to two young boys, five adolescents from 16 to 17 years old are presented to justice, Saturday in Créteil.
In the background emerges a rivalry between neighborhoods, the five teenagers having sought to "harden" the small of their ranks.
Five teenagers are presented to justice on Saturday in Créteil in Val-de-Marne, suspected of having tasered and lead on 12-year-old boys whom they humiliated and abused in this city, AFP learned from parquet.
A judicial investigation was opened in particular for "attempted murder" and "aggravated violence", specified the prosecution of Créteil.
According to a source close to the investigation, the charges stem from a rivalry between gangs of young people, but concern minors from the same neighborhood.
"Within the same gang, the older ones found that the younger ones had not been strong enough" against a rival district, and "decided to harden the younger ones with violence", explained this source.
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The story begins at the end of February, when young people from the Bleuets district push 12-year-old boys, who live in the "rival" district of Echat, to "lower their pants" and "sing insults" on their own. district.
Filmed, their "humiliation" is broadcast on the Snapchat social network.
In reaction, teenagers from the district of Echat have decided to "toughen up in a violent way" these 12-year-old boys, judging them "not strong enough against the Bleuets".
They would then have made them do push-ups, undress, and injured them by taser and pellet gun fire, according to the source close to the investigation.
All once again filmed.
"Traumatized" children
The investigation, entrusted to the Territorial Security of Val-de-Marne, follows "the complaint of one of the two traumatized children", according to the weekly
Le Point
which revealed the arrests, which the prosecution confirmed. .
According to a police source, these two children are "still under pressure" from other adolescents in their neighborhood.
"One of them even had to move to the provinces urgently," this source told AFP.
Of the five adolescents presented to justice on Saturday and not "specially" known to the police, four are 16 years old, one is 17 years old.
For three of them, the prosecution requested a warrant of committal.
The start of 2021 was marked by several violent fights between young people, with the beating of young Yuriy in Paris in January, then the death of two teenagers during two brawls in Essonne in February.
These tragedies have thrown a new spotlight on this ancient phenomenon of youth gangs, with frequent but rarely fatal clashes, which has found, according to sociologists, a new sounding board in social networks.