an 18-year-old high school student succumbs to his injuries, three days after being the victim of a “punitive expedition”

The attack on Farid, 18, took place on Wednesday, a few hours before the death in this town of a 14-year-old boy, named Sedan, stabbed to death in the metro.

The city of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) once again in mourning. “We learn with shock and great sadness of the death of Farid, a high school student who was violently attacked last Wednesday near his school.“, declared the municipality, Saturday January 20, in a press release posted on social networks.

The 18-year-old student died from his injuries three days after his attack, described by the city as “an operation akin to a punitive expedition.”

Farid’s death comes as the population of Saint-Denis paid tribute in the morning to the memory of another teenager, Sedan, 14, stabbed to death on the platform of the Basilique de Saint-Denis metro station. Two fatal attacks that occurred on the same day, but we do not currently know if they are linked.

Gatherings prohibited in the city until Monday

Altercations between young people from different neighborhoods have increased in recent days in the municipality, requiring a strengthening of the police force and a ban on gatherings by the town hall until Monday. “Everyone must take the measure of their responsibility to end the cycle of violence”called the city of Saint-Denis in its press release.

Friday, “attempted altercations” took place again in the city, some of which in the name of the “revenge”, which led to around twenty preventive arrests by the police, according to the mayor of Saint-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin (PS), cited by France 3 Ile-de-France.

The demonstration organized in memory of Sedan, which brought together several hundred people and numerous local elected officials, was an opportunity to launch calls for calm, in a context of high tensions within the city of 113,000 inhabitants. .