VIDEO. “As soon as I left my house, there were insults everywhere,” testifies the mother of a teenager attacked in Grande-Synthe

She evokes a “hell” and said to be the subject “threats”. The mother of the 15-year-old boy attacked on the night of Friday Saturday in Grande-Synthe (North) testified on franceinfo, Sunday April 21. “I barely leave the house, it’s all insults, it’s no longer possible for me”, she explains. The teenager is the cousin of one of the two minors indicted for the assassination of Philippe Coopman.

“When I came out, they told me: ‘We’re going to kill you, you big b…’.”, adds this woman, who agreed to speak on condition of remaining anonymous. Today she fears for her loved ones. “My children are threatened: ‘Be careful when you send them to school, you deserve to end up worse than your son. And I hope he doesn’t make it and that he will suffer’.”

Public prosecutor Charlotte Huet clarified that he had injuries leading to total incapacity for work for more than eight days. At this stage, the motive for this attack has not yet been established. The mayor of Grande-Synthe calls on residents not to give in to psychosis. The security system has been reinforced in the Northern commune, by decision of the prefect.

According to his account, this teenager was contacted by a friend on Friday evening and joined him in a vehicle. It was then that he “fell into an ambush”affirms this woman, evoking “six hooded people waiting for him.” She assures that this violence was committed because her son had the same name as one of those indicted: “In the insults, they still say: we didn’t get your cousin, but at least we got you.”

“Leaving would make them win”

“I blocked my social networks, I don’t want to go look anymore, it disgusts me”she continues. “Leaving would make them win, but if I really leave, it’s not even for them, it’s really for my family”she also told franceinfo, without providing details on the people she was designating. “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t leave.”she concludes.

The attack on his son occurred four days after the death of Philippe Coopman, who died Tuesday following blows to the head. At this stage of the investigation, there are reasons to believe that this is a “murder aggravated by the circumstance of ambush”, the public prosecutor explained on Friday at a press conference. Two minors, aged 14 and 15, were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention. They say they have “set up an appointment” with the 22-year-old victim via a dating website, posing as a minor.