The 15-year-old Berlin teenager, seriously injured by a player from French club Metz during a fight after a match in an international tournament in Frankfurt, is dead, German police announced on Wednesday. “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 struck the fatal blows is still in pre-trial detention, said the Frankfurt police, who are continuing their investigation into the course of the events. The suspect is part of one of the training programs of the French club FC Metz, which plays in the 2nd 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 different countries, most of them European.
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