Police and prosecutors in Paris are looking into the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old who refused to give up his mobile to two teens.
The boy’s phone was demanded by the two as the child was leaving a soccer training session in southern Paris on Friday evening, according to the prosecutor’s office.
When he refused, one stabbed him in the back and the child died in clinics.
Offenders aged 16 and 17 were arrested after a colleague of the target helped detect them, the lawyer’s office added. Both were accused of violent extortion and had already appeared in court last October.
On Monday, Paris police director Laurent Nunez stated that one believe had admitted to” the attempted bribery and deadly weapon blow.”
Nevertheless, there had been a decrease in children crime cases, Nunez told RTL television, but” there is a surge in youth violence that is becoming intolerable.”
He claimed that a third of those charged with violent robbery in the Paris area were adolescents.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau expressed his shock at the demise of the 14-year-old following” the weapon blows of warriors who wanted to steal his phone.”
The right-wing secretary continued,” Rebuilding a France where parents no longer have to face child murder for nothing will be a long and difficult road.”
