Overview
- The 17-year-old was attacked Monday before 4 p.m. at Oberkampf on Line 5 and suffered a deep cut to his right cheek.
- About ten people forced him off the train and struck him with a machete on the platform before fleeing.
- He reboarded the train, then exited at République where firefighters treated him and took him to Pitié-Salpêtrière, and his life is not in danger.
- The Paris prosecutor opened an inquiry that the regional transport service will lead, and no arrests had been reported as of early Tuesday.
- Investigators are pursuing a neighborhood rivalry motive and say the teen recognized the group, while early reports said he had not filed a complaint.