the town hall prohibits “all groupings and gatherings of people”

Wednesday evening, a 14-year-old teenager died after being stabbed a little before 8 p.m. during a brawl in the Basilique de Saint-Denis metro station (Seine-Saint-Denis), on line 13 .

A measure against the “shock“. The city of Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis, has banned gatherings in public spaces after the death of a teenager, stabbed Wednesday evening in a metro station, in a context of inter-district tensions Aged 14, he died after being stabbed a little before 8 p.m. during a brawl in the Basilique de Saint-Denis metro station (Seine-Saint-Denis), on line 13.

Thursday January 18, Mathieu Hanotin, the mayor of the city, therefore encourages adolescents to stay at home in the coming days, outside of school. The order, taken in a “context of strong tensions between individuals“, is valid until next Monday.”All groupings and gatherings of people resulting in abusive, prolonged occupation of the public domain, undermining order and security, are prohibited from the entry into force of this decree and until Monday January 22 at midday.i” throughout the commune, it is written in a municipal decree, which franceinfo was able to consult.

“Cutting the escalation of violence”

“We were all shocked, appalled by the brutality, the total nonsense of this absolute drama that we experienced.” declared the PS mayor of Saint-Denis Mathieu Hanotin during a press conference, denouncing “a phenomenon which starts for a reason that no one knows and which continues because it is the logic of escalation. This cycle of escalation of violence must be broken.”

As part of the investigation, a 19-year-old young man, implicated in the death of the 14-year-old teenager, was placed in police custody this Thursday, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case. The suspect, originally from Saint-Denis, presented himself to the police, with a lawyer, according to a source close to the investigation joined by franceinfo.

According to the first elements of the investigation to which franceinfo had access, although the exact circumstances of the murder remain to be determined, the police were able to have access to video surveillance recordings in the station of line 13 of the Paris metro. Thus, the altercation took place between the victim accompanied by another person and a group of three other people. During the brawl, one of the members of the other group stabbed the 14-year-old in the back, who was subsequently kicked several times in the head while she was on the ground. Still according to this source, the victim’s friend managed to put the three individuals to flight by grabbing a fire extinguisher and spraying the perpetrator of the stabbing with gas.