Death of Shanon, 13: What we know about the suspects

Three people were arrested. arrested on March 19, thirteen days after the rape of Shanon, a young 13-year-old schoolgirl. The teenager, who had been placed in a coma, died last Wednesday.

They are between 13 and 19 years old. Three people were arrested. arrested on March 19 in the Shanon affair, named after the 13-year-old girl who died on March 27. following a rape that occurred on March 6 at the home of a friend ' Rantigny, in the Oise. While the circumstances of the tragedy must still be clarified, the prosecutor of Senlis, Loïc Abrial, said in a press release that: that the three people present at the scene of the tragedy had been killed. arrested. This is Shanon's friend, also 13 years old. She was the one who called him. help after having found the child Shannon unconscious in a bedroom. In respiratory arrest, the teenager had already suffered from respiratory failure. lost a lot of blood, relays 20 Minutes. Transported to At the Amiens hospital, she will be kept alive by a respirator for three weeks, in a coma, until her death. extubation authorized by his family last week.

The other two suspects are two young men, aged 18 and 19. While the investigation has yet to shed light on the way in which they came into contact with the young girls, BFMTV believes it knows that the latter had chosen to have sexual relations with them. Each with one of the boys, in separate rooms. The facts, however, were clearly established. qualified as rape, the law of April 21, 2021 providing for a “presumption of non-sexual consent for adolescents aged 15” ;years or less". À At this stage, we still don't know what happened. between the moment whenù the two couples separated and the moment they separated, the two couples separated. the 19-year-old young man alerted her boyfriend that there was a problem with Shanon, leading to her the flight of the two individuals.

The main suspect placed in provisional detention

"The instruction must make it possible to know the exact circumstances, but we can already do so. to ask the question of acts of torture and barbarity, explains Me Frédéric Le Bonnois, the lawyer for Shanon's family, questioned ; by 20 Minutes, which evokes "a gaping wound in the victim's vagina". While a procedure for "rape of a minor by an adult" had initially been é open, Shanon's death reclassified the judicial information as “rape leading to violence”. the death of the victim. 

"The alleged rapisté was é placed in pre-trial detention. His two co-indicted, suspected of voluntary abstention from preventing a crime, were prosecuted. left free, with an adult placed under judicial control and a minor placed under provisional judicial educational measure, for his part announced the public prosecutor, emphasizing in passing that none of the suspects has a prior criminal record. The investigation is continuing. Shanon's funeral will take place on April 9. A white march should also be organized this week, the family's lawyer told AFP. 20 Minutes.