Very seriously injured by a young footballer from FC Metz after a fight on the sidelines of an international tournament organized in Frankfurt, a teenager from Berlin died on Wednesday May 31. “After the fight on Sunday […] the 15-year-old boy died in hospital from serious brain injuries,” German police said in a statement.
The 16-year-old boy suspected of having delivered the fatal blows is still in pre-trial detention, said the Frankfurt police, who are continuing their investigation into the course of the events. He is part of a training program for French club FC Metz, which plays in the second division. “In order to clarify the circumstances of (the death of the young German), an autopsy will be performed in the coming days,” she added.
The deceased teenager, who belonged to the German team JFC Berlin, had so far been kept artificially alive so that he could donate his organs, the spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office told AFP. Nadja Niesen.
On Tuesday, the French club, “deeply shocked by this tragedy”, did not specify the age and nationality of the offending player who plays within the FC Metz Performance Program, a structure integrated into the club and which allows “young footballers or educators from all over the world to be able to access a high-level training structure”. The tournament in which the two youngsters took part welcomed teams from 16 countries, most of them European.
