“It’s a general bankruptcy of our society,” declares Gérald Darmanin

Published 11/20/2023 9:10 p.m.

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Guest of the program “C’à vous” on France 5 Monday evening, the Minister of the Interior specified that the gendarmerie had already carried out “more than 70 hearings” in this case.

The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, described, Monday, November 20,“contemptible” And “unacceptable” the death of a 16-year-old boy on Saturday evening during a brawl during a party in the village of Crépol (Drôme), adding: “It is a general bankruptcy of our society. »

Guest of the program “C’à vous” on France 5, the Minister of the Interior specified that the gendarmerie had already carried out “more than 70 auditions”.

Victims aged 16 to 65

Saturday evening in Crépol, while a “winter ball” bringing together 350 people was organized, “an external group of individuals” This town of 532 inhabitants had sought to enter the village hall, according to the public prosecutor of Valence Laurent de Caigny.

He followed one “general brawl » after these people were denied access to the room. A 16-year-old boy died from stabbings and two other seriously injured young men were hospitalized. In total, emergency services counted 17 victims aged 16 to 65, the majority of them men. At this point, no arrests have been made.

“What happened is not extremely clear or too clear: people who came from elsewhere and who wanted to force entry into this party and stabbed people. It’s called savagery.” He estimated that he “we need to rethink the framework of authority”. “We must restore authority everywhere”insisted Gérald Darmanin.

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