Overview

• Sékou, a 17-year-old, was fatally stabbed during a violent clash between rival youth groups near a high school in Yerres, Essonne, on March 24.
• Six suspects, including one minor, have been charged with crimes ranging from voluntary homicide to complicity in homicide.
• The primary suspect, a 19-year-old from the Tournelles neighborhood, denies delivering the fatal knife wound despite video evidence and has been placed in pre-trial detention.
• Four other suspects from the Hautes-Mardelles neighborhood face charges related to violent acts, with two placed under judicial control and two held in detention due to prior offenses.
• The French government has called for random security checks near schools to address the rise in youth violence, particularly in Essonne, which accounts for a quarter of such incidents in France.