On the evening of Wednesday, November 13, two men aged 20 and 21 were tied up and tortured for several hours after trying to rob a home in Tournefeuille (Haute-Garonne). According to the first testimonies relayed by the site The Dispatchthe two individuals allegedly entered an apartment in a small building to steal from the tenants, but were quickly overpowered by the occupants. Instead of contacting the police, they allegedly chose to “ solve the problem on their own “, reported an anonymous source to the local newspaper.
The intervention of the occupants of the accommodation was extremely brutal: one of the intruders was allegedly burned with hot oil, beaten and stabbed in the legs, while the other was severely beaten. Frightened by the screams coming from the apartment, the neighbors immediately alerted the emergency services. “ The police intervened shortly after 11 p.m. », specified the police, and quickly took care of the two injured people, who were transported to hospital, without their vital prognosis being threatened.
The rest after this ad
A dispute linked to trafficking?
The exact circumstances of this altercation remain unclear. Initial hypotheses state that this settling of scores could be linked to a dispute in drug trafficking, but this remains to be confirmed. In total, six people, including the two injured, were placed in police custody for questioning, pending clarification on the real motivations for this confinement and the violence inflicted.