A man was shot and killed in a building lobby Thursday evening in Valencia in a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking, AFP learned from reliable sources. The victim, a man in his thirties, was in an elevator on the ground floor of a building when several shots rang out shortly before 9:30 p.m., two police sources told AFP.
Hit by several bullet holes, the victim succumbed to his injuries without emergency services being able to resuscitate him, firefighters said. The man was known to the police, indicated the town hall of this town in Drôme, which suggests a probable “settling of scores between rival gangs against a backdrop of drug trafficking”. “He was well known, we are involved in local drug trafficking”confirmed Denis Iglesias, head of the Alliance de la Drôme union. According to him, the weapons used are Kalashnikov-type war weapons. The perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting are on the run.
In May 2023, four men were shot and killed
A vehicle, which could have been used in their escape, was found burned in another district of the city, police said. Valencia, like many medium-sized cities, regularly experiences violence linked to drug trafficking. In May 2023, four men were shot and killed during score-settling between traffickers in this town of 65,000 inhabitants. In September, a man was beaten to death after a cocaine deal.
