Matisse, 15, Stabbed to Death After Rap Fight in Châteauroux: a Convicted Teenager

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).

The accused, a minor of regular Afghan nationality who arrived in childhood in Châteauroux with his mother, had been tried since Monday in camera for killing Matisse following a fight in April 2024. He was also sentenced to 15 years of socio-judicial follow-up.

In his editorial of 29/05/2025 in Punchline, Laurence Ferrari looks back at Matisse's murder

There was a breaking development in the investigation into the stabbing death of 15-year-old Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi in Kadıköy. An indictment was prepared against 8 child suspects, 5 of whom are under arrest, who are alleged to have beaten 16-year-old U.A.Y., who wrote a comment under a news article shared on social media indicating the address of murder suspect B.B. The indictment requested sentences ranging from 3 years and 4 months to 14 years…

The Children's Court issued its decision on Wednesday, 28 May, in the trial of the death of Matisse. The 15-year-old was killed by several stab wounds on 27 April 2024.