France - Shemseddine (15), French pupil dies after being beaten near school, Viry-Chatillon, 4 April 2024

[JennieM]

There are renewed concerns over levels of violence among young French people after the death of a 15-year-old pupil who was badly beaten near his school.

The boy was attacked by several people as he left school on Thursday afternoon in Viry-Chatillon, about 20km (12 miles) south of Paris.

He suffered a cardiac arrest and died a day later, a police source said.

"This extreme violence is becoming commonplace," said the town mayor, Jean-Marie Vilain.

Earlier in the day, French President Emmanuel Macron said schools needed to be "shielded" from "uninhibited violence among our teenagers and sometimes among increasingly younger ones".

Mr Vilain told French media the boy was walking home after a music class at about 16:30 local time on Thursday when he was set upon by a group of youths.

According to witnesses, he was punched and kicked by the attackers, who were wearing balaclavas.

He was taken to the Necker hospital, a top paediatric hospital in Paris, but doctors were unable to save his life.

Police are still looking for his assailants and are studying CCTV footage in an effort to identify them.
Mr Vilain said he was saddened by the assault, which he described as "senseless" and "unspeakable".

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French pupil dies after being beaten near school

The 15-year-old boy was attacked by several youths and suffered a cardiac arrest, say police.

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[JennieM]

[The] teenager was attacked by several people as he left school on Thursday afternoon.

The public prosecutor’s office announced the boy’s death on Friday afternoon and said an investigation had been opened into murder and gang assault outside a school.

Pupils at the entrance of the school on Friday. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

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The assailants “tried to massacre him”, said Jean-Marie Vilain, the mayor of Viry-Châtillon, calling them “the worst kind of thugs”. “This extreme violence is becoming commonplace,” he added. Psychological help would be provided to pupils and teachers at the school, the mayor added.

According to a police source, the teenager was beaten by several people who then fled.

The school is in a working-class district of Viry-Châtillon, home to about 30,000 people. No arrests had been made by Thursday evening.

Dozens of messages threatening attacks have been sent to schools around France in recent days.

Boy, 15, dies after attack outside school in France

Teenager was assaulted by several people who fled scene in country’s latest incident of school violence

www.theguardian.com

 

[tlcya]

This is becoming way too commonplace

 

[Rikissa]

Article from 4 April 2024:
The reason for the attack why Shemseddine, the 15-year-old, was attacked:

A few days before the attack, the girl's two brothers reportedly learned that she had been corresponding with boys, including Shemseddine.

Three of them are already known to the police, notably for drug possession, extortion, and aggravated assault

The two brothers, 17 and 20, together with two acquaintances met with the victim, and attacked him. There were a fifth person, a minor, with them, but as the article in the second post mentions, he was released, as he apparently only were in the car, and not involved in the attack.
Translated from French to English by Google Translate:

Mort de Shemseddine à Viry-Chatillon : quatre jeunes hommes mis en examen pour assassinat, dont deux écroués

Shemseddine, 15 ans, est mort après avoir été violemment agressé près de son collège jeudi soir. Cinq personnes avaient été placées en garde

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Article from 30 December 2024
Translated with Google Translate.

Mort de Shemseddine à Viry-Chatillon : l’un des suspects remis en liberté

Soupçonné d’avoir participé à l’expédition qui a causé la mort de l’adolescent de 15 ans à Viry-Chatillon (Essonne) en avril dernier, un hom

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I can't find anything newer than the article from December 2024.