AFP
Five people injured with knives, two seriously in Metz
Five men were injured with knives, two of them seriously on Monday in the working-class district of Borny in Metz, the Metz public prosecutor’s office ruling out any terrorist motive. The events occurred around 10:30 a.m. near a supermarket and allegedly involve several perpetrators in leak. The terrorist motive is excluded and the hypothesis retained at this stage would be a context of extortion of funds, the Metz public prosecutor, Yves Badorc, told AFP. An investigation was opened on the charge of attempted murder and entrusted to the interdepartmental judicial police service (SIPJ) of Metz. The firefighters indicated that they had taken care of four stabbing injuries, including one minor, who were taken to Mercy hospital in Metz. Another injured person went to the hospital on his own. A police source spoke of a possible settling of scores. According to certain sources, violence also took place inside the convenience store. “Someone told me that the person came into the grocery store with an axe,” a local lady told AFP. “I’ve lived here for ten years, this kind of thing doesn’t shock me, we know what Borny is like, so we’re no longer surprised.” According to another police source, the victims are of Afghan nationality and the manager of the supermarket was targeted, but his condition did not allow him to be heard. The other four injured do not speak French. – “Palpable tensions” – According to the same source, the Borny district is “always a little hot” and “often the scene of score-settling”. “The mini-market is the object of desire given its location, it is located in a very busy place, it is well placed, whether for legal or illegal trade,” explained this police source. “Fights recur regularly to control the street or the neighborhood.” Ludovic Mendes, Renaissance deputy in the constituency, believes that it is “a dramatic news item which seems to pit people from the same community in the form of settling scores”. “I understand the emotion that this can create but let justice do its work.” Marie-Claude Voinçon, candidate of the National Rally for the 2nd constituency of Moselle and municipal councilor of Metz, condemned this attack in a press release published on the social network family, also spoke of tensions in the neighborhood. “There is insecurity, there is drug trafficking, it is known, we are not safe at all. A few months ago a 17-year-old boy was shot right outside side, boulevard d’Alsace, the parallel street There are palpable tensions between clans”, she told AFP. – Hache – “What happened this morning, according to the statements of a neighbor, it’s in relation to the mini-market, a clan wants to get it back,” she added. “I saw injured people, people hitting each other, and someone running with an ax after a car. It was young people. Afterwards, the police and the firefighters arrived, but I don’t know more. It’s probably score-settling. , we don’t see much,” described a speech therapist who practices nearby and wished to remain anonymous. Borny is a priority district in the politics of the city of Metz which was hit hard last year during the riots that occurred after the death of young Nahel, killed in Nanterre during a police check. The neighborhood media library was set on fire, to the great dismay of elected officials and residents. The neighborhood’s town hall was also partially burned.hss-pau-apz/bdx/gvy
