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

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