Photographs of the Roma minor whose lynching shocked France

Yesterday the online edition of the British daily The Daily Telegraph published a photograph of the Roma youth who was brutally lynched in a Parisian suburb last week by a group of masked assailants. "These are the photographs that are shocking France," The Daily Telegraph reported.

Darius, a 16-year-old Rom from Romania, was found Friday evening unconscious in a shopping cart near a hypermarket in Seine-Saint-Denis north of the capital. He suffered numerous serious injuries, including a fractured skull, and his life remains in danger.

The shocking photographs were provided by the man who found the victim and who lives near the dilapidated building adjacent to which the young Rom was living about 200 other members of his community. The photographs were taken shortly before the victim was provided medical aid. 

"The man, who wants to remain anonymous, said he found the boy unconscious in the shopping card late Friday evening, just after he had been dragged there by a gang of about 20 men wearing balaclavas. The authenticity of these photographs has not been verified by the victim's family," The Daily Telegraph reports. 

The photographs were also made available to the French news server Le Parisien. However, that media outlet decided not to publish them, instead describing them in an article as "shocking". 

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• Roma boy attacked in Paris: the picture that will shock France