2023-12-21 21:46:25
Eight young people were sentenced Thursday, December 21 in Paris to sentences of up to eight years of criminal imprisonment by the juvenile court, for their involvement in the violent attack on young Yuriy in 2021.
The heaviest sentence was imposed on a 21-year-old young man, an adult at the time of the events, found guilty of attempted murder for having struck the teenager’s head with a hammer. The only accused to appear in the box, in pre-trial detention, he admitted to having struck but denied having intended to kill. The seven other defendants were sentenced to sentences ranging from eighteen months suspended to five years in prison, three of which were closed.
On March 30, during a first trial following this attack, four teenagers were sentenced in Paris to sentences of up to five years in prison, one of which was suspended. Aged 14 and 15 at the time of the violent beating of the schoolboy in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, they were tried behind closed doors by the children’s court ruling in criminal matters.
Video of the attack that went viral
Yuriy, a French schoolboy born in Ukraine, who was preparing to celebrate his 15th birthday, was beaten on January 15, 2021 on the Beaugrenelle slab, the converted roof of a shopping center in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The video of his attack, which went viral, caused a stir and shone the spotlight on the phenomenon of violence between rival gangs in the capital.
These images, lasting around twenty seconds, showed around ten young people attacking Yuriy, then on the ground, with kicks, crutches and hammers, before abandoning him on the slab. Yuriy was taken to hospital in serious condition, between life and death.
Now aged 17, the young man was present at the opening of the hearing with his mother on December 4. He was not there when the verdict was announced. “I am delighted that the Assize Court judged the facts for what they were, an attempted homicide”reacted after the verdict was announced Francis Szpiner, lawyer for the victim and her family, while the attorney general had requested a reclassification of the facts as aggravated violence for two of them.
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