Is this a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking? It is still too early to draw such conclusions. This Friday, a man entered the McDonald's on Boulevard Ornano, near Porte de Clignancourt (18th arrondissement), shortly before noon, armed with a “large caliber revolver”, a police source tells us.
Aged around sixty, he allegedly fired several shots at a septuagenarian, aiming at the chest and head. According to a police source, the victim was treated by emergency services but, despite the care provided, died a few minutes later.
The attacker did not attempt to flee after the shots were fired. He remained on site, waiting to go to the Bac agents of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, the district town hall confirmed to Le Parisien. The shooter offered no resistance during his arrest. An investigation was entrusted to the second judicial police district.
This Porte de Clignancourt district is known to the police to be a hub for the sale of medicines, other pills and cigarettes. In November 2023, Le Parisien focused on this district in the north of Paris that some elected officials and residents believe has been neglected by the Île-de-France region.
The Porte de Clignancourt was even invited to the table of the 18th century district council, in the form of a wish addressed to its president, Valérie Pécresse (Free!). The PS-EELV-PCF majority accused him of letting this Parisian entry fail. Kévin Havet, deputy (PS) for security of the mayor of the 18th century, declared at the time that the police intervened “on drug trafficking, street sales of cigarettes and fruits and vegetables, damage committed in public spaces, but also traffic offenses”, and also indicated having “requested customs so that it could join the police force”.
