Two men were shot dead in the street late Sunday afternoon in Sevran, less than 48 hours after a shooting linked to drug trafficking which left one dead and several seriously injured in this popular town of Seine-Saint-Denis .
According to police sources, the two men were killed around 6:00 p.m., Allée des Lilas, in the Montceleux district, 1.4 km from the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday evening.
Aged 33 and 35, they were known for violence and drug trafficking, said a police Source.
The suspect(s) fled, according to a second police Source.
Two bodies were on the ground under white sheets, noted Sunday evening an AFP journalist present on site, at the foot of the Edmond-Michelet neighborhood house. A very strong police presence was deployed on the scene, secured by yellow tape.
People in tears stood nearby.
“These are two young people from the neighborhood who were killed,” said a local resident to AFP, who requested anonymity and did not directly witness the scene.
Two mobile force units were sent to the site, said a police Source.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, a 28-year-old man had already been killed and four others injured, during a shooting in the city of Beaudottes, an emblematic district of this town of 52,000 inhabitants located 25 km to the north. -east of Paris.
Three other gunshot wounds also showed up at the hospital later in the night, one of them leaving before being examined.
“It’s necessarily a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking,” Stéphane Blanchet, DVG mayor of the city, responded to AFP.
On site, 25 7.62 cartridge cases, a caliber used in particular for Kalashnikov-type weapons, were found.
After Marseille, Sevran was the subject of an anti-drug operation “XXL square” on March 25 with the aim of stopping trafficking. In this city, the deal point in the Rougemont city had been “eradicated”, the police headquarters said on Saturday.
“Territory wars”
According to this Source, “it is obvious that these operations destabilize traffic and give rise to turf wars to re-appropriate the dismantled points.”
On Friday, the shooting occurred around 11:45 p.m. when two people arrived in a parking lot in a Peugeot 5008. The passenger got out of the vehicle then fired several times before fleeing, said a police Source.
Several units of mobile forces were sent to the area on Saturday to reinforce a security system already comprising local police officers and anti-crime brigades (BAC), the police headquarters indicated to AFP.
An investigation had been opened for intentional homicide by an organized gang and attempted intentional homicide by an organized gang, the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office told AFP. She had been entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police.
In a press release published on Saturday, the mayor of Sevran denounced an “unbelievable outburst” of violence which he attributes to “dirty money from the drug economy”, an “economy of death which is rotting our cities”.
“In previous weeks, other shootings had taken place, probably linked to trafficking, in a neighborhood close to a neighboring town,” he said, stressing that “these phenomena unfortunately go beyond the borders of our towns.”
A total of 315 homicides or attempted homicides linked to drug trafficking were recorded in France between January and November 2023 in police zones, an increase of 57% over one year, according to the national police.
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