a 15-year-old teenager dies, victim of several stab wounds

The main suspect is one of the attackers in a knife extortion case for which two minors had been indicted. He and his mother were taken into custody.

A 15-year-old teenager was stabbed to death on Saturday April 27 late in the afternoon in Châteauroux (Indre), according to information from France Bleu Berry. The victim suffered several stab wounds to the chest. The prosecution confirmed the stab wound received during a fight. A 15-year-old minor was placed in police custody, franceinfo learned from the prosecution, as well as his mother, suspected of being involved in the violence which led to the teenager’s death.

Initially in critical condition when firefighters were treated, the victim did not survive his serious injuries, reports France Bleu. Saturday evening, the police were deployed on rue Ernest-Nivet while a yellow flag indicating a “national police sampling zone” had been pulled to the corner of this street and that of Champ Carreau while a gray blanket was still lying on the ground.

The suspect implicated in two proceedings

An investigation was opened for attempted intentional homicide and entrusted to the Orléans judicial police, specifies the prosecution. The main suspect aged “over 15 years old at the time of the events” is suspected of having stabbed the victim following a fight that occurred on Saturday around 6 p.m. in Châteauroux.

The suspect “has never been convicted by the courts and his criminal record is clean”. However, this minor is already implicated in two criminal proceedings, one of which “resulted in the opening of a judicial investigation” on April 22 for “aggravated theft” and “violence”, details the prosecution. .

He was then placed under judicial supervision after his examination following his presentation before a judge, specifies Agnès Auboin, public prosecutor of Châteauroux. Judicial control is the “only security measure provided for by the code of criminal justice for minors”, in particular “for a minor of his age, without previous conviction and indicted for acts of a criminal nature”.

“Shocked” residents

In the neighborhood, some residents witnessed the scene. A young mother, Marie-Mathilde, testified to France Bleu Berry, she said she heard screams. “When I leaned down, I saw a young man dressed in black hitting the victim but I did not see a knife. I saw the young man on the ground who said his back hurt and he was cold”.

Marie-Mathilde then throws a blanket from her window and rushes downstairs, where she finds herself with a passerby. “When we lifted his t-shirt, we saw the clothes soaked in blood. We compressed the wounds until the firefighters arrived”explains Marie-Mathilde. “We are shocked, we don’t expect to experience this. We feel guilty saying to ourselves that we failed to save him”she continues.