Lionel Gomes was killed by bullets and hammer blows in the common areas of a building in a housing estate in La Seyne-sur-Mer in 2017. His murder is considered the trigger which led to five years of settlements account against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
The starting point of five years of bloody score-settling in the Toulon area. Since this Thursday, October 3, the trial of the four men accused of the murder of Lionel Gomis, a 27-year-old Seynois killed in 2017 by several bullet holes and hammer blows, has been taking place at the Draguignan assizes.
The events occurred in the common areas of a building in the Cité Berthe, in La Seyne-sur-Mer, against a backdrop of drug trafficking. Lionel Gomis was at the time a figure in Var drug trafficking and known to the police. The Gomis clan still controls the traffic in this city to this day.
15 dead and more than 40 injured
The murder of Lionel Gomis was the trigger for five years of settling scores, from Hyères to Ollioules via the Berthe city of La Seyne-sur-Mer.
In total, 15 people died, mainly by bullets, in connection with trafficking between 2017 and 2022, and 42 people were injured during shootings, indicate our colleagues from Var-Matin.
Tried until October 11, those accused of the murder of Lionel Gomis – one of them still on the run – face life imprisonment.
Laury Holste with Laurène Rocheteau