PARIS: A French schoolboy died on Friday from wounds sustained in a violent assault, as President Emmanuel Macron warned schools should be protected from “uninhibited violence” among some youths.
The 15-year-old teenager was badly beaten Thursday near his school in a town south of Paris and rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest.
He died of his wounds early on Friday afternoon, a prosecutor said.
It was the second such assault this week, after a 13-year-old girl was left temporarily comatose after being attacked outside her school in the southern city of Montpellier on Tuesday.
“We have a form of uninhibited violence among our teenagers and sometimes among increasingly younger ones,” Macron said earlier in the day before the teenager died, as he visited a primary school in Paris.
In the latest beating, several people attacked the 15-year-old as he left school Thursday afternoon in a low-income district of Viry-Chatillon, a town around 20 kilometres south of Paris.
The schoolboy suffered cardiorespiratory arrest, according to a police source, leading to his death the following day.
Police on Friday afternoon detained a 17-year-old as part of a probe into murder and gang assault.
Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2024
