Montgeron: an open investigation after homophobic aggression of a teenager

The facts go back to Thursday, September 30 and took place in the “Sensitive Sector” of the Forest district, according to the Essonne Police.

Le Monde with AFP

Evry’s prosecution opened an investigation after the homophobic aggression of a minor in Montgeron (Essonne), on September 30, town of nearly 24,000 inhabitants southeast of Paris.

During his hearing, the 17-year-old boy said to have been, “at the rate of his appearance”, “for free struck by a pack of individuals shouting him” pd “, confirmed at the agency France-Presse (AFP) The parquet of Evry, Monday, October 11th. They were a “dozen individuals” to get to the teenager during a “fortuitous meeting” in Montgeron, was the same source. The investigation for “violence aggravated by three circumstances” – “in a meeting, on the basis of the supposed sexual orientation and person concealing his face” – was entrusted to the Office of Montgeron.

According to Sylvie Carillon, the Mayor (LR) of Montgeron, the aggression young man is not from Montgeron. On Twitter, she declared her “deeply shocked by images of an aggression of inhuman violence, adding that these” acts are not entitled to cited “.

Deeply shocked by images of an aggression of inhuman violence at @ Montgeron91 circulating on the r … https://t.co/kdatiti6r “/p>- sylviecarillon (@carillon sylvie)

The facts took place in the “sensitive sector” of the forest La Forest, according to the Essonne Police. Around 6:30 pm, a person alerted the police, but once on the spot, the officials could not find the victim or the authors or the witnesses. There was no complaint. However, a video is highly relayed on social networks. It is reported Sunday in Pharos, the platform allowing Internet users to report online content that seems illicit to them.

Two video sequences

This video is composed of two sequences. On the first, which lasts 21 seconds, we see a group of young men who hit another placed along a barrier, at the foot of buildings. A woman tries to make the shots screen, then an older man intervenes in turn, all under cries.

A second sequence of 22 seconds takes place at a hundred meters of the first, according to an image analysis performed by the AFP. We see a young man curled up on the ground, surrounded by six other young men, four of whom strike him violently. Again, two people try to intervene.

In addition to the aggressors, investigators also look for people who recorded or disseminated this video. The “Happy Slapping”, recording or disseminating images of violence, is punishable by five years imprisonment and € 75,000.

/Media reports.