Two days after the tragic death of Ruben Azoulay, the investigation has not made much progress. This 31-year-old young man was killed on Wednesday in Paris (VIIIe), with two bullets in the chest in a massage parlor where he had taken refuge. “The leads are numerous, but the difficulty for the police officers of the criminal brigade will be to sort through the mass of information that comes to their ears, believes a source familiar with the matter. They need evidence and this is a rare commodity in murder cases linked to organized crime.” The hypothesis that holds the rope would be that of a target error, because the profile of the victim’s petty criminal, does not does not really stick with an execution in good standing.
Four shots fired from an automatic weapon
It is around 3 p.m., boulevard de Courcelles, when the two killers arrive on a motorbike on this axis overlooked by the Arc de Triomphe. One of the two men enters the real estate agency JAC (XVII), located at number 108. He pushes the door of the back office. Ruben Azoulay manages to escape by taking an adjacent door before taking refuge in the massage parlor opposite, in the 8th arrondissement.
His pursuer opened fire twice in the street. The murderer catches up with the victim and in turn rushes into the Ban Sabai. He is armed with a pistol with a long barrel and shoots Ruben Azoulay twice.
The real estate agent is hit by two bullets in the chest. He collapses and immediately loses consciousness. An employee comes to his rescue and gives him a cardiac massage before being relayed by the firefighters and then the Samu. The emergency doctors tried to operate on him on the spot. But despite their efforts, at 4:25 p.m., the young man succumbed to his injuries. The body is taken to the medico-legal institute of Paris to undergo an autopsy. When possible, his remains will be returned to his relatives who wish to bury him in Israel.
Levies on casings and scooters
A little later, the authors’ two Yamahas were found sprayed with fire extinguisher powder in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine). According to initial information, the assassins fled in a car. The forensic technicians stay on the scene of the assassination for a long time and discover a bullet hole on the door of the real estate agency’s Smart. A casing is found on the ground, another is picked up near the front of the living room and two others inside. The exploitation of the traces and clues taken from the two-wheelers, the cases and the crime scene are in progress. Research on the telephone boundary as well. Officials are trying to trace the path of the killers by following their movements with the help of surveillance cameras in Paris and its suburbs. But for now, there is nothing to identify them.
The personality of the victim is necessarily screened. Ruben Azoulay was the father of a little girl and he lived in the XVIth arrondissement. “He had already had a run-in with the law for petty crime,” notes a third source.
The investigations could last several months
But it is the presence of a man, stuck in organized crime, who would have entered the real estate agency where the victim worked, very shortly before the arrival of the killers, which raises questions. “Maybe it’s a coincidence. But the idea is put forward that the murderers may have taken the wrong target, because this man was known to both the narcotics brigade and the research and financial investigation brigade, adds this specialist. This is an attractive hypothesis because it refers to the settling of scores, which occurred in the past, against a backdrop of carbon tax scams”. But in any case, for now, the investigations, which could last several months, are just beginning.
