Shock in France after teenager fatally stabbed for phone

Two young people were placed in pre-trial detention on Monday, January 27, in the investigation into the death of Elias B., stabbed Friday evening in Paris on the way out of his soccer training. He tried to resist the theft of his cell phone.

Deadly Paris: Boy Stabbed to Death During Cell Phone Robbery.

A 14-year-old boy named Elias was fatally stabbed in Paris, France, on Friday, January 24, after refusing to hand over his cell phone to two robbers. The incident occurred shortly before 8 PM in the city’s 14th arrondissement (district) as he left a soccer practice. Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, demanded the younger boy’s phone, and upon his refusal, one of them stabbed him. Elias was pronounced dead on Saturday afternoon.French Interior Minist…

Two minors aged 16 and 17, known to justice, were indicted for “extortion with violence that resulted in the death of Elias B.” This attack, which occurred on Friday evening, aroused numerous reactions.

The death of Elias, stabbed to death for his telephone, aroused the outrage of several French political figures....

REPORT - In front of the Montaigne college where he studied, as well as in his family environment, pain and incomprehension dominate, four days after the murder of the teenager, killed for a mobile phone by two young repeat offenders.

Friday evening, Elias, 14, had just come out of soccer training with a friend at the Jules-Noël stadium, when two boys asked him to hand over his mobile phone to them