one dead, one injured, a sector of the Mosson cordoned off by the police

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A shooting broke out at 6:30 p.m., this Thursday, January 2, 2025, in the rue de Salerne which is perpendicular to the avenue de l'Europe, in the city of Mosson, in Montpellier. The report shows one dead and one injured.

According to our information, numerous calls came to 18 and 17, reporting close gunshots and an injured person lying on the ground, in this artery which connects Avenue de l'Europe and the Grand Mail, at street level. from Barcelona, ​​in the heart of Mosson-La Paillade.

The firefighters of Sdis 34 and a medical team intervened, as well as a large number of municipal police et national. The area is cordoned off. We learned that the victim, seriously injured by bullets in the chest and whose vital prognosis was in jeopardy, died shortly after his admission to the anesthesia and resuscitation department -DAR- at University of Montpellier. He was identified as being in his thirties: he was born, in fact, in 1991.

Near a deal point

According to a source close to the investigation, he was very unfavorably known to the Montpellier police services, in particular for his involvement in drug trafficking. Another 23-year-old man was also shot, but his life is not believed to be in danger. Both were located near a obviously coveted deal point.

Traffic was interrupted on line 1 of tramway between Mosson and Saint-Paul stations until further notice. Is there a link with a scooter set on fire at 7 p.m. not far from the scene of the shooting, exactly on rue de Liège? It is too early to say, but the police from several units are on edge: the witnesses who witnessed this assassination and an assassination attempt, undoubtedly linked to drug trafficking and a settling of scores between drug traffickers , told investigators that the shooter was on the back of a scooter driven by an accomplice. And that they headed towards rue de Liège via the nearby rue de Leyde, where the scooter was set on fire.

9mm caliber

The two individuals who are on the run used one or two 9mm caliber firearmsas indicated by clues recovered on site by the technical and scientific police and placed under seal. An autopsy was ordered by the Montpellier public prosecutor's office, which jointly referred investigations to the local judicial police service – Slpj, national police – and the interdepartmental judicial police service, the Sipj.

This fatal shooting comes a few hours after the visit to Marseille of the Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, Gerald Darmaninwhere he repeatedly declared war on drug bandits and hit them in the wallet.

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