The teenager, named only as Thomas, was killed on November 19 at a village dance party in Crépol, south of Lyon. He was stabbed during a brawl that is believed to have broken out when a group of youths, said to be from a nearby housing estate, tried to gatecrash the event. Nine people were wounded, four of them seriously.
Conservative and hard-Right politicians have cast the death as evidence of danger from immigrants and minorities.
During a visit to the village of Crepol on Monday, Mr Véran said that the death of Thomas is “a tragedy that puts us at risk of a tipping-over of our society if we don’t rise to the occasion,” he said.
“It’s up to the judiciary to mete out justice. Not for the French public themselves,” he warned while acknowledging that the death of Thomas was the result of more than a “simple fight at a village dance”.
More than 100 hard-Right activists travelled to the nearby town of Romans-sur-Isere on Saturday looking for a fight with young people from the La Monnaie neighbourhood, police said.
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