Hat tip Francois Desouche and Nouvel OBS
In Paris, 8 minors and 1 adult are in custody charged with the savage gang beating of a 15-year-old boy in mid-January. The below article contains a video of the attack, which was spread on social media. (Viewer warning.) Translation by Fousesquawk.
Beating of Yuri in Paris: 9 persons taken into custody
8 minors and 1 adult have been placed in custody for "attempted murder" and "criminal association".
-By L'Obs with AFP (Agence France Presse)
Posted 28 January 2012 at 08:04-updated 28 January 2021 at 10:41
The investigation is on-going. Eight minors and one adult-and not nine minors as initially reported- have been arrested this Thursday, 28 January in the morning and placed in custody in the investigation into the beating of a 15-year-old schoolboy, Yuri, in mid-January in Paris, we have learned from the Prosecutor's Office, confirming information from "The Point".
The persons "have been placed in custody on charges of attempted murder, criminal association with intent to commit a crime, and group robbery with violence," stated the Prosecutor's Office.
The young adolescent was taken to the hospital in serious condition after having been severely beaten by a gang of youths during the evening of 15 January. He was then with some friends on the ledge of Beaugrenelle, the converted rooftop of a commercial center, facing the Seiner in the 15th District, a well-to-do quarter of the capital.
The investigation, opened for "attempted voluntary group homicide," must examine, among others, the trail of an attack by a gang of youths from parts of west Paris and attempt to establish the origin of the fight and the connection between the different protagonists, according to the same source.
According to a source close to the case, the schoolboy "had a screwdriver in his pocket," at the time of the attack.
Friday evening, the spread of 20 seconds of images of the attack on social media aroused a stir. One sees about 10 youths in sport clothes and hooded jackets kicking and striking a person on the ground with clubs including at head level before leaving him.
Several celebrities, including the football player, Antoine Griezmann, and the actor, Omar Sy, were moved by the fate of the victim and lent him their support. The Elysee Palace announced Sunday evening that they had had "an exchange" with the mother of Yuri, Nataliya Kruchenyk.
The adolescent "is doing a little better. He is awake, (and) tries to express himself," she indicated Monday morning on BFM-TV.
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Conservative French politician, Marine LePen, has issued a strong statement of condemnation on Twitter.
"Are we supposed to get used to this savageness? Are we supposed to get used to these barbaric lynchings. Today, Yuri, tomorrow who?
The government can no longer close its eyes to this daily ultra-violence while responding only by the culture of the excuse!"
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