According to the first testimonies, the victim had slipped before being caught and stabbed by the alleged perpetrator. A 15-year-old teenager was indicted for “attempted murder”, after an altercation near a high school in Hyères (Var) where another young man was injured with several stab wounds, the prosecutor’s office announced on Friday. Toulon.
“He was indicted on the count of attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention,” said the public prosecutor of Toulon, Samuel Finielz. Already known to the justice services, he was in possession of the supposed weapon during his arrest.
Tuesday morning, around 8 a.m., at the opening of the school and at the exit of the bus, a 16-year-old boy had been seriously injured with several stab wounds, in particular in the back according to Var Matin, by another teenager. . In total, six blows would have been given to the arms, stomach and back therefore, specifies BFMTV. During a “physical altercation” between the two minors, “one of them used a knife and struck several blows” to the other, explained the prosecution.
Arrested in high school, he recognizes the facts
The victim, seeing the knife, “ran off, but he tripped and the other stabbed him,” explained another student who witnessed the scene. A victim who had nevertheless succeeded, at first, to gain the upper hand, according to our colleagues from the regional daily. The injured, first hospitalized in serious condition and whose vital prognosis was engaged, is now “out of danger”, indicated the prosecutor.
The alleged attacker was arrested and taken into custody for attempted homicide on Tuesday. He had admitted “having struck the victim with a bladed weapon, as part of a physical altercation” arising from “a dispute over money”, explained the prosecutor Finielz.
According to a police source, the 15-year-old had been arrested by the police inside the school itself, the professional high school Golf Hotel, which notably provides training in the hotel industry.