A 28-year-old man was killed and several were seriously injured by gunfire during the night from Friday to Saturday in Sevran, a poor town in Seine-Saint-Denis, a shooting that authorities attribute to violent turf wars between the drug traffickers.
The events occurred on Friday around 11:45 p.m., in the Beaudottes district of the town of 52,000 inhabitants, located 25 kilometers northeast of Paris.
When the police arrived, five injured people were on the ground. Despite the intervention of emergency services, a 28-year-old man, hit in the throat and head, died on the spot. The other four, men aged 22 to 29, were evacuated to different hospitals.
Kalashnikov type weapons
The shooting occurred when two people arrived in a parking lot in a Peugeot 5008. The passenger got out of the vehicle then fired several times before fleeing, a police Source said.
From the same Source, 25 7.62 cartridge cases, a caliber used in particular for Kalashnikov-type weapons, were found on the ground.
Several units of mobile forces were deployed on Saturday in the sector to reinforce a security system already comprising local police officers and anti-crime brigades (BAC), the police headquarters told AFP.
An investigation was opened for intentional homicide by an organized gang and attempted intentional homicide by an organized gang, said the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office. She was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police. No person had been arrested as of midday Saturday.
Settling scores
“We are not going to hide our faces: it is necessarily a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking,” reacted to AFP Stéphane Blanchet, DVG mayor of the city since 2018.
In a press release published on Saturday, the councilor denounces an “unbelievable outburst” of violence which he attributes to “dirty money from the drug economy”, an “economy of death which is rotting our cities”.
“In previous weeks, other shootings had taken place, probably linked to trafficking, in a neighborhood close to a neighboring town,” he said, stressing that “these phenomena unfortunately go beyond the borders of our towns.”
Destabilized traffic and turf wars
After Marseille, Sevran was the subject of an anti-drug operation “XXL square net” on March 25 with the aim of stopping trafficking. In this city, the Rougemont city deal point had been “eradicated”, the police headquarters said on Saturday.
According to this Source, “it is obvious that these operations destabilize traffic and give rise to turf wars to re-appropriate the dismantled points.”
A total of 315 homicides or attempted homicides linked to drug trafficking were recorded in France between January and November 2023 in police zones, an increase of 57% over one year, according to the national police.
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