Zelenskyi responds to the beating of a teenager in Paris: Attack shocks with viciousness and hatred
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyi responded to the beating of Ukrainian teenagers named Yurii by an unknown group on January 15 in Paris. The teenager has been in an artificial coma since then. The president expects the attackers to be punished.
Zelenskyi wrote about this on social media.
He reminded that on January 15 in Paris, a Ukrainian was brutally beaten. He says that judging by the video; teenagers like him did it or a little older people did it. Yurii and his friends were returning from school when they were attacked.
Zelenskyi adds the boy is still in critical condition with many injuries, and doctors are still trying to be very careful in their predictions. But, they say, they have a reason to hope that he recovers.
"An attack that shocks with its viciousness, barbarism, hatred… Ten to one. They had fits, cold arms. And they had a goal — to kill, maim, mutilate," the president said.
Zelenskyi demands to find and punish the attackers. He adds that this is "not just our demand, it's a question of civilization." In any country, such an attack deserves a harsh response from the state.
"The Embassy of Ukraine in France is involved in this situation. The Ukrainian state will do everything to ensure that Yurii and his family receive the assistance and that the investigation receives the incentives. We already have a harsh reaction from French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. The attackers must be in prison," he added.
To recap, on January 15 in Paris, an unknown group brutally beat 14-year-old Ukrainian Yurii. The teenager was hospitalized with multiple skull injuries and later placed in an artificial coma. Yurii's mother Natalia Kruchenyk-Fargat told Hromadske that the boy slipped, after which unknown people started beating him with iron objects, and when the ambulance arrived, everyone ran away.
