A rural village in southern France is in shock after a group of young delinquents from a deprived suburb attacked a village fete and killed a 16-year-old boy.
The village of Crépol in Drôme was holding its “fete de village”, an annual or biannual celebration, on Saturday night with around 450 of the 500 residents attending.
As the fete began winding down at 2am, a group of youths arrived, some carrying knives. When a security guard barred their entry, they attacked him, slicing through his fingers.
One witness told Le Parisien: “There was a fight between the assailants and those who were brave enough to face them.”
“It was a bloodbath,” said another. “Youths from the suburbs surrounded the party hall, blindly stabbing people … One youth received a heart massage on the floor. It was chaos.”
Stabbed several times in the throat
In the commotion, two men aged 23 and 28 were seriously injured and later hospitalised in a “critical” condition. One had been stabbed several times in the throat. A third injured individual was in a stable condition on Monday.
One teenager, known only as Thomas, a 16-year-old and keen rugby player, was fatally stabbed.
Hugo, a witness, told Le Parisien: “I was at the entrance and I saw Thomas get stabbed in the heart and throat. A helicopter took him to Lyon but it was sadly too late.”
Martine Lagut, the mayor, said the town was “traumatised” by the apparently unprovoked attack.
“A gang turned up to kill,” she told Le Dauphiné libéré newspaper. “They didn’t come to have fun but to harm.”
Laurent de Caigny, prosecutor of Valence, said police suspected they came to “settle a score” with a person present that night, without providing more details.
An investigation into “murder and attempted murder by an organised gang” has been launched.
Denouncing a “barbaric and tragic” act, RC Romans-Péage, the rugby club for whom Thomas played, posted a photo of the slain teenager on its website in which he smiles with his rugby kit on.
One neighbour told Sud Ouest: “I am totally devastated. It’s inexplicable. I knew him very well, his parents are wonderful people. There was no one more kind and polite than Thomas.”
‘The one who made everyone laugh’
A classmate called Mattéo said: “Thomas was the guy who got everyone to make up when there was a little conflict in the group.
“But he was also the one who made everyone laugh, who helped out all the time, who was always there for the others,” he told BFMTV.
The shocking death came amid warnings of rising violence against France’s mayors, many of them from small rural villages. France has around 36,000 mayors. According to a recent poll, the number of verbal and physical attacks against them rose by 15 per cent last year after a record 32 per cent rise the previous year.
During riots in France in July, criminals ram-raided one mayor’s house with a stolen car when his wife and children were inside.
The French government promised to ramp up security of elected officials.
Young French kid murdered by Algerian Gangs. The video of the attack is up on Twitter
Business as usual.
It seems like someone is trying to defend the actions by saying they come from a deprived suburb. Totally irrelevant that they come from a deprived suburb and I find it utterly disrespectful to mention it in the context of this brutal attack.
Sounds like a terror attack
> youths from deprived suburb
what does this even mean? who the hell writes these headlines.
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This happened on Sunday. There hasn’t been a single arrest made and they have no idea who the perpetrators were.
There is no way these were native French people, you just KNOW it from the title. How sad is that.
This whole forced … “diversity” policies are working out great for us Europeans … what a mess. What a waste. F****g hell.
Fucking animals
Islamic suburb?
Man, that’s just scary and horrendously brutal. So, looking through some comments below, I’m seeing people post that it might be racially or religiously motivated? If so, then it’s sad that I’m not more surprised, which is really sad in itself. That’s just what will help people of different religions get along better. More senseless bloodshed in the name of a certain God.
I hope those reports are wrong and it was motivated by something else. Either way, no matter the motivation and “reasoning” for the attack, there is no justification or legitimate reasons to commit such barbarity. I hope the murderers get the full length of justice that they deserve.
Local news stories aren’t r/europe material, stop posting some random crime in some backwater village. Those happen several times per day if we aggregated from all over Europe. Do you want to know how many purses were robbed in Côte d’Azur next?
This is local news, stop annoying us with local news.
They didn’t put it in the article but the gang was algerian youths.
Silencing the problem that are those unintegrated illegal immigrants in Europe in fear being called racist is laughable… soon the people will took the matter in their own hands and it will be ugly
Call me conspiratorial but I feel like there might be a cultural dynamic at play here that doesn’t get mentioned by the article
Third world youths causing third world problems
“Deprived suburb”? Still don’t know how to translate banlieue? It’s the hood, or the projects. And the thing deprived (and depraved) is their mind and their lifestyle.
You’ve gotta love the wording they use to describe it when we all know what they ACTUALLY mean.
The most obscene part is that the French media calls this a “rixe” (a brawl) which would let you think that responsibilities were shared but no, it’s just 20 fucking lowlife scumbags that went to a party and started stabbing people.
Revenge is the new currency, and we’re spending it freely.
Let me guess, the perpetrators were second generation immigrants.
Why I carry a gun. Shot these Algerian gangs and you will see the crimes drop
Weird. I learned more about the history of neighborhood parties in France from this article than I did about the perpetrators of a psychotic killing spree.
>deprived suburb
Why is this relevant? I thought murder is murder?
Nik omk farcha.
Sad thing is Algerians in Algeria are more chill
This doesn’t seem to be getting reported that widely. Can’t see anything in the BBC, although there’s a story in the front page about how Blackpink might be splitting up.
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Article text:
A rural village in southern France is in shock after a group of young delinquents from a deprived suburb attacked a village fete and killed a 16-year-old boy.
The village of Crépol in Drôme was holding its “fete de village”, an annual or biannual celebration, on Saturday night with around 450 of the 500 residents attending.
As the fete began winding down at 2am, a group of youths arrived, some carrying knives. When a security guard barred their entry, they attacked him, slicing through his fingers.
One witness told Le Parisien: “There was a fight between the assailants and those who were brave enough to face them.”
“It was a bloodbath,” said another. “Youths from the suburbs surrounded the party hall, blindly stabbing people … One youth received a heart massage on the floor. It was chaos.”
Stabbed several times in the throat
In the commotion, two men aged 23 and 28 were seriously injured and later hospitalised in a “critical” condition. One had been stabbed several times in the throat. A third injured individual was in a stable condition on Monday.
One teenager, known only as Thomas, a 16-year-old and keen rugby player, was fatally stabbed.
Hugo, a witness, told Le Parisien: “I was at the entrance and I saw Thomas get stabbed in the heart and throat. A helicopter took him to Lyon but it was sadly too late.”
Martine Lagut, the mayor, said the town was “traumatised” by the apparently unprovoked attack.
“A gang turned up to kill,” she told Le Dauphiné libéré newspaper. “They didn’t come to have fun but to harm.”
Laurent de Caigny, prosecutor of Valence, said police suspected they came to “settle a score” with a person present that night, without providing more details.
An investigation into “murder and attempted murder by an organised gang” has been launched.
Denouncing a “barbaric and tragic” act, RC Romans-Péage, the rugby club for whom Thomas played, posted a photo of the slain teenager on its website in which he smiles with his rugby kit on.
One neighbour told Sud Ouest: “I am totally devastated. It’s inexplicable. I knew him very well, his parents are wonderful people. There was no one more kind and polite than Thomas.”
‘The one who made everyone laugh’
A classmate called Mattéo said: “Thomas was the guy who got everyone to make up when there was a little conflict in the group.
“But he was also the one who made everyone laugh, who helped out all the time, who was always there for the others,” he told BFMTV.
The shocking death came amid warnings of rising violence against France’s mayors, many of them from small rural villages. France has around 36,000 mayors. According to a recent poll, the number of verbal and physical attacks against them rose by 15 per cent last year after a record 32 per cent rise the previous year.
During riots in France in July, criminals ram-raided one mayor’s house with a stolen car when his wife and children were inside.
The French government promised to ramp up security of elected officials.
Young French kid murdered by Algerian Gangs. The video of the attack is up on Twitter
Business as usual.
It seems like someone is trying to defend the actions by saying they come from a deprived suburb. Totally irrelevant that they come from a deprived suburb and I find it utterly disrespectful to mention it in the context of this brutal attack.
Sounds like a terror attack
> youths from deprived suburb
what does this even mean? who the hell writes these headlines.
Countdown to the comments getting locked for racism
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This happened on Sunday. There hasn’t been a single arrest made and they have no idea who the perpetrators were.
https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/profils-des-agresseurs-auditions-les-enqueteurs-progressent-tres-vite-apres-la-rixe-dans-la-drome_AV-202311201065.html
What a clownshow of a police investigative force.
There is no way these were native French people, you just KNOW it from the title. How sad is that.
This whole forced … “diversity” policies are working out great for us Europeans … what a mess. What a waste. F****g hell.
Fucking animals
Islamic suburb?
Man, that’s just scary and horrendously brutal. So, looking through some comments below, I’m seeing people post that it might be racially or religiously motivated? If so, then it’s sad that I’m not more surprised, which is really sad in itself. That’s just what will help people of different religions get along better. More senseless bloodshed in the name of a certain God.
I hope those reports are wrong and it was motivated by something else. Either way, no matter the motivation and “reasoning” for the attack, there is no justification or legitimate reasons to commit such barbarity. I hope the murderers get the full length of justice that they deserve.
Local news stories aren’t r/europe material, stop posting some random crime in some backwater village. Those happen several times per day if we aggregated from all over Europe. Do you want to know how many purses were robbed in Côte d’Azur next?
This is local news, stop annoying us with local news.
They didn’t put it in the article but the gang was algerian youths.
Silencing the problem that are those unintegrated illegal immigrants in Europe in fear being called racist is laughable… soon the people will took the matter in their own hands and it will be ugly
Call me conspiratorial but I feel like there might be a cultural dynamic at play here that doesn’t get mentioned by the article
Third world youths causing third world problems
“Deprived suburb”? Still don’t know how to translate banlieue? It’s the hood, or the projects. And the thing deprived (and depraved) is their mind and their lifestyle.
You’ve gotta love the wording they use to describe it when we all know what they ACTUALLY mean.
The most obscene part is that the French media calls this a “rixe” (a brawl) which would let you think that responsibilities were shared but no, it’s just 20 fucking lowlife scumbags that went to a party and started stabbing people.
Revenge is the new currency, and we’re spending it freely.
Let me guess, the perpetrators were second generation immigrants.
Why I carry a gun. Shot these Algerian gangs and you will see the crimes drop
Weird. I learned more about the history of neighborhood parties in France from this article than I did about the perpetrators of a psychotic killing spree.
>deprived suburb
Why is this relevant? I thought murder is murder?
Nik omk farcha.
Sad thing is Algerians in Algeria are more chill
This doesn’t seem to be getting reported that widely. Can’t see anything in the BBC, although there’s a story in the front page about how Blackpink might be splitting up.