An 18-year-old student and activist is on life support after a fight broke out with a group of skinheads in Paris yesterday. Four suspects have since been arrested.
Clément Méric, an 18-year-old progressive activist, was reportedly assaulted by a group of three skinheads in Paris on Wednesday night, leaving him brain dead:
Méric was a student at the Sciences Po in Paris.
The interior minister, Manuel Valls, said a fight broke out on Wednesday evening between two groups of young people near the St. Lazare train station.
Police reported that a group of three “skinhead types” found themselves in a shop with another group that included Meric, sparking a scuffle between the groups. Later, outside the shop, the victim “was hit by one of the skinheads who wore a knuckleduster and fell on the pavement, hitting a bollard.” Méric was declared brain dead that night at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. According to Channel4, he was still on life support this morning.
Thursday morning Valls announced that four arrests had been made, including that of the individual suspected of delivering the final punch to Clément Méric. Police described the incident as being "politically motivated".
Blood can be seen on the pavement at the scene of the fight:
Source: youtube.com
Lots of people were running in every direction and as the young people with shaved heads looked like they were leaving, they came back and suddenly a punch was thrown and the young man fell against the bollard. Afterwards, I looked after the victim who had blood flowing from his ear and nose.
