US EditionMinors and Machetes: France’s Deadly New Normal
- The trial has commenced for the individual charged with fatally stabbing a teenager named Matisse on April 24, 2024, in France.
- This case reflects a broader rise in violent attacks with bladed weapons, often involving minors, as highlighted in a recent government report.
- The special report titled "Minors Bladed Weapons" shows that 31% of armed robbery suspects in 2024 were teenagers, with knives involved in 57% of their homicides.
- Elias, age 15, was killed in Paris with an axe after having his phone stolen, and his mother expressed her anger publicly, stating, "I am waiting for answers and I see nothing coming."
- The report recommends restricting weapon access, harsher penalties, and increased state controls like social media monitoring and video surveillance to prevent further violence.
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Minors and Machetes: France’s Deadly New Normal
As the trial opens for the man accused of stabbing young Matisse to death on April 24th last year, the case is one in a series of crimes that have become symbols for a disturbing trend in France. A new report submitted to the government highlights the sharp rise in attacks with bladed weapons, many committed by increasingly younger perpetrators—some of them minors. The authorities seem completely powerless to stop this dramatic trend. The murder…
On Wednesday, the Children's Court held that the defendant's "disqualification" had been altered, thereby reducing the sentence, and that he had also been sentenced to 15 years of socio-judicial follow-up.
The 15-year-old involved in the murder of Matisse, who occurred in 2024 in Châteauroux, was sentenced this Wednesday to 8 years in prison. A 15-year-old "socio-judicial follow-up sentence" was also pronounced. - Matisse, 15, stabbed to death after a rap fight in Châteauroux: a convicted teenager (Police, justice and other facts).
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A minor was sentenced this Wednesday to 8 years and imprisonment and 15 years of socio-judicial follow-up for the murder in April 2024 of Matisse, 15 years old, killed by several stab wounds.
Matisse, 15, was stabbed in the street in Châteauroux in April 2024 A 16-year-old was sentenced Wednesday 28 May by the Châteauroux Children's Court to eight years in prison
In his editorial of 29/05/2025 in Punchline, Laurence Ferrari looks back at Matisse's murder
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