Coming to settle a score, traffickers mistakenly attack the occupants of an Airbnb

It’s a surreal scene. Saturday morning around 9 a.m., in the south of Lyon, in Givors, traffickers wanted to settle their score against a competitor who had taken refuge in an Airbnb. Problem: the two people occupying the accommodation, and who saw these armed and very threatening men arrive, have nothing to do with this story.

In the middle of a score settling

The criminals therefore found the wrong accommodation. Not finding the man they are looking for, the traffickers begin to torture them to make them talk, convinced that they are covering up for the fugitive. They crush their fingers with hammers and fire shots into the air to intimidate them. The two terrified young people obviously have no information to provide them, since they do not know the man in question who is actually in the Airbnb next door, where he has been hiding for several days.

Alerted by the gunshots, understanding that it is he who is being targeted, he immediately flees. His pursuers will do the same when they hear the police. Louis, the neighbor across the street still can’t believe it: “There, we’re reaching a climax. We’re in a quiet neighborhood. And there, we have the impression that it’s transforming like the northern districts of Marseille. I’m not afraid, but my wife, who heard the shots like me, is worried.

An investigation was therefore opened by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office. The armed men are in fact traffickers from Valencia who have come to settle scores with a rival, known to the police for his involvement in several shootings against a backdrop of drug trafficking.