The bandage around Aylan’s head (name has been changed) is impressive. It is one of the many stigmata that testify of the suffering endured by the young Meruvian high school student. Last Friday, he was kidnapped at the exit of the François-Truffaut high school, in Beauvais, once morest a backdrop of rivalry with the city of Méru, where he lives with his family.
For two hours, deep in a cellar, he was tortured. An ordeal that he no longer wants to mention. “I want to put all that behind me,” he confirms. The rivalry with Beauvais, Aylan had heard regarding it, like many Meruvians, but he did not feel particularly concerned. While his attackers beat him, Aylan says he always repeated the same sentence: “I am not in these stories! »
“It’s especially my ear that hurts me”
Four people, including three minors, were arrested and taken into custody, according to Beauvais prosecutor Caroline Tharot. A decisive step forward in the investigation, even if the investigations are continuing. On this point, Aylan comments briefly: “I just want to see them in prison. »
Nervously exhausted, the teenager has been sleeping a lot since Monday, the day he was able to return home following his hospitalization. “It’s mainly my ear that hurts me,” he says. “It was torn off and is completely damaged and deformed, underlines Hakim, his father. He is forced to undergo ALD treatment (long term condition) to repair the damage. »
Above all, Aylan aspires to return to as normal a life as possible. “I want to be able to pass and pass my baccalaureate,” he says. On the other hand, there is no longer any question for him “of setting foot once more in Beauvais”, nor of going “to a boarding school”. “I’m going to see how he can take lessons at home, announces his father. He is not in a condition to resume normal schooling for several weeks. Afterwards, I hope to obtain an exemption to enroll him in Cergy (Val d’Oise). »
Hakim remains worried regarding the followingmath of the nightmare experienced by his son: “Aylan says nothing, he internalizes a lot out of modesty but I hope that the psychological damage will not be too devastating. »
This Tuesday, the prefecture claims to have tackled the problem head-on by organizing a meeting with the public prosecutor, the mayors of the two cities and the police, “to stop in depth the acts of violent rivalry observed between the young people of the two cities”.
A partnership working group will meet every month to “refine risk detection and adapt security systems accordingly”. At the same time, the prefecture announces that “prevention actions will be reinforced thanks to the mobilization of the heads of establishments” and “joint interventions in the establishments most concerned will be carried out in Beauvais and Méru”.
