On the night of this Friday 8 to Saturday 9 November 2024 in Perpignan, a 22-year-old young man was shot and injured in front of a night bar in the Polygone Nord. He succumbed to his injuries. The victim was from the gypsy community and father of two children. The alleged perpetrator of the fatal shooting is still on the run.
22 years old is the age of the young man shot dead on the night of Friday 8 to Saturday 9 November 2024 in front of a night bar in Perpignan. The disastrous scene took place in front of the B'Fly, an establishment which describes itself as a bar-lounge, located rue Chalasse, not far from the Leclerc hypermarket at Polygone Nord. According to videos of the establishment visible on social networks, as well as testimonies collected on site, it is also a hookah bar, particularly frequented by the gypsy community, where concerts are regularly organized.
According to information from L'Indépendant, the deceased young man is a member of the gypsy community of Perpignan and was “unknown to justice“, as confirmed by the Perpignan public prosecutor's office. A boy from a “great family of Saint-Jacques” is stated by several witnesses. But what happened around 3 a.m.? According to the first elements, the victim went out to this night bar at the Polygone Nord with four to five friends. During the evening, an altercation allegedly broke out with other customers of the establishment People, described to this day as “.spanish gypsies“.
The victim was a father of two children
Which would have been, at the start, only a dispute.on a background of alcohol“, it would have gotten carried away when leaving the night establishment. It was around 3 a.m. when one of the protagonists would have taken out a weapon, probably”a rifle“, and allegedly fired. Hit, the 22-year-old young man collapsed on the spot. The police and firefighters were dispatched to the scene. Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the man died from his injuries. Furthermore, a car was found burned nearby. This act could be linked to the fatal brawl which “a priori would not be a settling of scores“, as specified by the Perpignan public prosecutor's office.
This Saturday afternoon, however, in front of the night bar, nothing suggested that a scene of such violence had occurred in the same place, a few hours earlier. Traces of a drunken evening are visible on the ground, like tube glasses typical of nightclubs, but also what looks like the remains of a bottle of vodka. “But there's nothing unusual about this.assures a witness working in the sector. As soon as there is a party here, the next day we have to clean because we always find things like this“.
The exact circumstances of this macabre gesture remain unclear. What is the origin of this dispute? How did the situation escalate? Where did the weapon come from? Did the alleged perpetrator act alone or with accomplices?
The fact remains that this tragedy has caused great emotion within the gypsy community which is mourning this young boy of 22, already married and father of two young children. For some, a “escalade” is feared. This Saturday evening no arrests had been made. The alleged perpetrator of the fatal shooting is said to be on the run. Some fear that he has crossed the border to take refuge in southern Catalonia.
The Perpignan public prosecutor's office confirms to L'Indépendant the opening of a “murder investigation entrusted to the Perpignan police station“. An autopsy on the victim's body must be carried out in the coming days. Witnesses must still be heard to try to lift the veil a little more on this affair.
