Four miners were injured, two of them seriously, during a brawl with axes on Monday in the RER E at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station (Seine-et-Marne), facts for which an investigation for attempted assassination was opened, AFP learned from the Melun prosecutor’s office and police sources.
The facts
Around 8:00 a.m. in an RER E train where there were four teenagers, aged 15 to 17, who were going to high school, a group of attackers, made up of 8 to 10 people, triggered the alarm to immobilize the train at the height of Ozoir-la-Ferrière station. Inside, they beat the targeted teenagers, who are used to sitting in the same place on the RER. The latter were attacked with an axe, an Opinel-type knife, tear gas canisters and baseball bats.
The victims
Two minors were seriously injured, the other two more lightly. They were transported to hospital for treatment, according to a police source.
“There was no severed hand and no vital prognosis involved,” indicated the Melun prosecutor’s office, putting into perspective the first information which circulated on the facts and which spoke of an open skull and a severed hand.
The teenagers were injured in the head, arm and hand. One of them risks losing his little finger.
An investigation for assassination opened
According to a police source, the main perpetrator was arrested at his home where an ax and a knife were found. The mobile…
