A man was shot and killed in a building lobby on Thursday, December 19 in the evening in Valencia in a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking, we learnedAFP from consistent sources.
Killed in an elevator
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., theAFP two police sources.
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 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.
Drug trafficking background
The perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting are on the run. 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.
