AFP :
A 15-year-old teenager has been badly beaten in a town south of Paris and rushed to hospital following a cardiac arrest, in the latest incident of school violence in France.
Thursday’s attack came at a time of heightened tensions around French schools.
Earlier this week a teenage girl was left temporarily comatose after being beaten outside her school in the south of the country.
In the new incident, which occurred in the town of Viry-ChYtillon, located around 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Paris, a teenager was attacked by several people as he left school on Thursday afternoon.
The public prosecutor’s office said it had opened a probe into attempted murder and gang assault.
The schoolboy suffered cardiorespiratory arrest, a police source said.
He was rushed to Necker hospital, a top paediatric hospital in Paris, said Jean-Marie Vilain, the mayor of Viry-ChYtillon.
