Hassane F., Chek Ibrahim D., Marwan B., Boubacary C., Ibrahim Khalil S., Modibo B., Ismaëla F., and Abdullahi K. are being judged before the juvenile assize court starting from March 19.
Six years after the murder of this teenager, eight individuals are appearing before the juvenile assize court of Paris, starting from this Tuesday. The episode, marked by great violence, shed light on the clashes in the East of the capital, between young people from neighborhoods separated by a simple boulevard.
In front of a Total gas station, a boy with his face disfigured by blows lies in a pool of blood. Around him, in tear gas fumes, hooded teenagers interrupt the fight in the middle of Boulevard Mortier, on October 23, 2018, in the heart of Paris. With hands hanging, long knives and metal bars in hand, the half-dozen silhouettes gathered sway for a moment in the night, out of breath. Some flee before the arrival of rescuers. A passerby skillfully improvises a tourniquet around Henry’s leg, injured by a knife blow. He used the jacket of one of the young men, petrified by all the blood. “His head is smashed! He is breathing but cannot speak,” another resident alerts the firefighters. Two hours later, the 16-year-old teenager dies from hemorrhage at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital.
To the northeast of Paris, a stone’s throw separates the neighborhood of rue des Fougères (20th), located against the boulevard…
