16-year-old seriously injured with five stab wounds at high school, assailant still at large

The seriously injured teenager is known to the police for acts of violence. The perpetrator of the attack, on the run, has not been identified.

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A young high school student, aged 16, was seriously injured with five stab wounds on Friday April 22 morning in his Louis Lumière high school in Chelles (Seine-et-Marne), franceinfo learned from a source familiar with the matter. The perpetrator, an individual outside the establishment, is on the run.

The attack took place around 10 a.m., during the morning break. An individual broke into this vocational high school. He then asked high school students to point to another young man whom he first hit with his bare hands and then stabbed on the high school floors, said the prosecutor of Meaux in a press release.

The vital prognosis of the 16-year-old teenager, hit in the back and flank, has been engaged for a time, according to the prosecution. Hospitalized at Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, his condition stabilized. According to information from franceinfo, he is known to the police for acts of violence.

The Meaux prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “attempted assassination”. The suspect, still at large, has not been identified at this time. The regional direction of the judicial police of Versailles is seized of the investigations.


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