“How can people persist like that?” denounces the city’s mayor

“I have a lot of emotions imagining that there is a kid who is simply fighting for his life”declared the mayor of Viry-Châtillon, Jean-Marie Vilain, to franceinfo, after the violent attack on a teenager on Thursday April 4, a few meters from his college.

Thursday afternoon, this 15-year-old student was leaving his music class and returning home, when he was beaten up by a group of individuals less than 100 meters from the establishment. According to the mayor, he was found “haggard in a stairwell, he could no longer respond”. He was then transported to Necker hospital in Paris, accompanied by his mother. “How can three or four other people persist like that? It shocks me.”confides Jean-Marie Vilain.

Increased security throughout the city

A psychological unit must be set up on Friday morning within the college which does not pose any particular problem according to the mayor: “It’s a college, like in all colleges in France, where there are teenagers who argue or hit each other from time to time, which is not a good thing, we should not be to hide the face. But it’s not a college where there was ultra-violence like that. There were problems with harassment on a few occasions. But really, it’s not a place to be particularly stigmatized. “

The mayor announces that security will be reinforced in front of Les Sablons college but also in the neighborhood and the entire town of Viry-Châtillon. A decision taken collectively with the new prefect of Essonne, Frédérique Camilleri, and the police commissioner stationed in the city. The teenager’s vital prognosis was still in jeopardy Thursday evening. He was not known to the courts, a judicial investigation is open for attempted assassination.