Victim was only 15

Schoolboy beaten to death near Paris – 4 men in custody

Following the violent death of a 15-year-old schoolboy in a Paris suburb, the public prosecutor's office has remanded four young men in custody on suspicion of murder. They are a 20-year-old and three 17-year-olds, as French media reported on Sunday evening with reference to the public prosecutor's office. The men are said to have brutally beaten up the pupil on his way home from school in Viry-Châtillon and left him unconscious.

He died the following day in a Paris clinic. Two brothers are among the alleged perpetrators, as reported by the BFMTV channel.

Victim is said to have boasted about contact with girls
According to the investigation, the motive for the brutal crime, which shook France to the core and prompted many reactions from politicians, is linked to the brothers' younger sister. The two are said to have learned that the sister had exchanged sexual information with the later victim, and the teenager had allegedly boasted about his contacts with the sister, investigators told BFMTV.

According to the report, the brothers feared for the reputation of the sister and her family and then ambushed the student together with the two other suspected accomplices. Three of the four arrested are already known to the judiciary for various offenses.

The public prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the 15-year-old sister because she is alleged to have deliberately failed to prevent the crime. There are strong indications that she knew what the brothers were planning and yet did not intervene. The teenager was committed to an educational institution.