Towards the indictment of three high school students – Liberation

Three high school students suspected of having killed a 17 -year -old minor on Tuesday, May 20, were presented this Thursday before an investigating judge in order to be indicted for « Murder in an organized gang », announced the Senlis prosecutor.

Aged 16, 17 and 19 years old, the three suspects, arrested quickly after the facts, recognized in police custody their « involvement », explaining that he had acted in « reprisals »added the prosecutor Loïc Abial during a press conference. These are two brothers and a cousin, all three living in the agglomeration of Creil (Oise) and unknown hitherto of justice.

The suspects notably argued that a family member would have suffered violence several weeks earlier. « They said they took up arms to be able to defend themselves, and according to the expression of one of them, to put pressure », but said they were not « Not animated by an intention to kill », said the magistrate.

According to video surveillance images, the three alleged attackers were already present near the Lidl store in Nogent-sur-Oise, in their vehicle several minutes before the arrival of the victim, who was in the company of other young people.

According to these images, after a grip between the two groups of young people shortly after 7 pm, the « leader » the 17 -year -old gang of attackers struck the victim with a neck with a « Machette type tool »reported the prosecutor. This unique blow decided the victim’s carotid and caused his death, he detailed.

The various searches have not allowed the weapon of crime for the moment, while a « Tool of Type-Pneus type » And a telescopic baton, also visible on video surveillance images during the attack, were found by the investigators in the vehicle of the three suspects, mentioned the prosecutor. He requested their placement in pre -trial detention.

This case « Reveals the use of very great violence for a reason (…) which appears of a fairly low gravity », Even estimated the magistrate, evoking a « Trunning » violence in some young people in school age.

The victim’s family called on social networks to a white march in his memory on Friday May 23, at 6 p.m., in Creil.