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A football tournament organized on Sunday April 27, 2025 at the City-Stade in the Cassenel district of Castelsarrasin, degenerated after the arrival of an outside individual at the meeting. A shot was fired, weapons found. The police investigate.
A simple football tournament, organized on Sunday April 27, 2025 in the Cassenel district in Castelsarrasinturned to the confrontation between rival bands.
As revealed by The dispatch, A shot was fired in the air and the police had to intervene to disperse around thirty young people.
The event, announced via the Snapchat social network, brought together twelve teams each composed of three players and a goalkeeper. Until then Pacific, this competition took place at the City-Stade of the neighborhood in a good-natured atmosphere. The national police, on the patrol that day, had noted at the end of the afternoon that the meeting took place without a notable incident. However, the atmosphere radically changed shortly after 6.30 p.m.
According to a direct witness who requested anonymity, the emergence of an individual well known to the police would have set fire to the powder. “He did not participate. He attacked an apparent reason for a young man from Montauban, triggering hostilities,” said this resident. Quickly, other individuals would have joined him to strike the victim, who then contacted his relatives. Several young people would have arrived in reinforcement from Montauban.
The situation would then have degenerated: according to our source, the individual at the origin of the facts would have returned to the armed scene, a bottle in one hand, a handgun in the other. He would have shot in the air before the police, alerted by residents, caused the belligerents to flee.
Upon their arrival, the police discovered a 22 LR caliber socket on the spot, several sticks and an iron bar. To date, no complaints have been filed, nor any injured. A reinforced security device will remain in place all week to avoid resumption of tensions.
