A teenager is in a coma in a hospital near Paris after allegedly being attacked by angry residents of a French housing estate in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.<br /><br />Police say the 16-year-old was dragged out of this unofficial Roma camp by a dozen locals, who accused him of breaking into a nearby flat. <br /><br />Christophe Crépin, a police union representative, explained: “They took him to a cellar and beat him up. He ended up in a supermarket trolley in a critical state, in agony.”<br /><br />Police say the teenager was known to them and had been linked to a number of thefts, break-ins and for driving without a licence, but he had not been charged with any crime.<br /><br />Eddy Sid, Police Alliance union representative, said: “He’s a juvenile, known to police for burglary and theft. Last week he was in custody for burglary.”<br /><br />Some 200 people in the camp fled the area after the incident.<br /><br />French president Francois Hollande said the attack was “unspeakable and unjustifiable,” and that he wanted “everything done” to find the attackers.
