Shots were fired in the middle of the market this Saturday morning on Place Saint-Bruno in Grenoble.
These shots in the air in the city center are likely linked to an anti-drug trafficker operation carried out in the city recently.
Since the start of the year, around twenty episodes of gun violence have been recorded in the Isère prefecture.
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Gunshots in broad daylight in front of a crowded terrace, in a market. This is what happened this Saturday morning at Place Saint-Bruno, in Grenoble. However, silence reigns in this square located in the city center, where local residents categorically refuse to testify to TF1. “It’s difficult to talk. I work, the rest is none of my business”sends a local resident in the video at the top of this article. “It has become a habit. We are suffering, customers are deserting this place”explains a weary trader, contacted by telephone. A few streets further, the floor is freed. “I tell you frankly: Saint-Bruno is the drug district”denounces a local resident. “Personally, I don’t go there after 6 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.”says another.
Was this an attempt at intimidation? According to Eric Vaillant, public prosecutor of Grenoble, “the shots in the air that occurred this Saturday morning in the Saint-Bruno market are probably linked to the anti-drug trafficker operation carried out in recent days”where seven people were arrested in this neighborhood.
Gang war
Since the start of 2024, around twenty episodes of gun violence have been recorded in Grenoble. The latest occurred on Thursday October 10, when an armored cash transport van was attacked by men armed with Kalashnikovs in the city center. Sunday September 29, a man was shot in the abdomen. Two days earlier, an apartment had been the target of around ten gunshots, again in the city center, near the town hall, where on Sunday September 8, a municipal employee, Lilian Dejean, had been killed by bullet by a driver.
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How can we explain such an outbreak of violence? Yannick Biancheri, departmental secretary of the National Police Alliance of Isère, denounces a significant drop in the number of national police officers over the past two years. “We do not have enough police force to patrol and provide sufficient security to the people of Grenoble”he laments. The authorities do not hesitate to speak of an ongoing gang war in the capital of the Alps.
