Is this a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking? It is still too early to draw such conclusions. This Friday, a 77-year-old man entered the McDonald's on Boulevard Ornano, near Porte de Clignancourt, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, shortly before noon. Equipped with a “large caliber revolver”, according to a police source, he fired several shots at a sixty-year-old, aiming at the chest and head. The victim, aged 60, died after a few minutes of treatment by rescuers.
The attacker did not attempt to flee after the shots were fired. He remained there, waiting to go to the Bac agents in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, several sources confirmed to Le Parisien. The shooter offered no resistance during his arrest. The Paris prosecutor's office confirms the opening of an investigation into assassination, carried out by the 2nd judicial police district.
Coming to buy a burger, a witness “heard an explosion” while leaving McDonald’s. “I turned around and saw that one man had coldly shot another. It shocked me. » He only heard one gunshot, “a bullet in the head”, he specifies. The Paris prosecutor's office confirms that the victim had “a bullet hole in the face”. “A revolver and two rounds of ammunition” were discovered on site.
The Porte de Clignancourt district is identified by the police as a hotspot for the unregulated sale of medicines, other pills and cigarettes. In November 2023, Le Parisien focused on this district in the north of Paris that some elected officials and residents believe has been neglected by the Île-de-France region.
La Porte de Clignancourt was even invited to the table of the 18th century district council, in the form of a wish addressed to its president, Valérie Pécresse (Free!). The PS-EELV-PCF majority accused him of letting this Parisian entry fail. Kévin Havet, deputy (PS) for security of the mayor of the 18th century, declared at the time that the police intervened “on drug trafficking, street sales of cigarettes and fruits and vegetables, damage committed in public spaces, but also traffic offenses”, and also indicated having “requested customs so that it could join the police force”.
