Video of 'attempted lynching' in Paris' lawless suburbs shocks France: Hooded mob are filmed savagely beating teenage victim, 17, with hockey sticks and a crutch

Three youths including a 14-year-old schoolboy were facing attempted murder charges in France today following the savage gang attack of another teenager. A horror video shows a mob allegedly trying to kill their 17-year-old victim in broad daylight on a council estate in the northern Paris suburbs. Makeshift weapons including hockey sticks, petanque balls and a crutch were used to repeatedly beat the youth around the head and upper body.

He was finally dragged away by terrified locals who witnessed the assault, and was rushed to an intensive care unit.

The images – which involve mainly white youths in their early teens – come at a time of increasing gang violence in France, especially on the tinderbox housing complexes surrounding major cities.

The latest outrage unfolded in Garges-les-Gonesse, in the Val-d’Oise department, some 20 miles from the centre of Paris, on Wednesday afternoon.

‘It was a terrifying attack,’ said an investigating source. ‘The thugs can be seen using their weapons to beat the life out of the boy.

‘He tried to hide underneath a car, but was dragged from underneath it, and then everybody got involved.

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