DThese men were shot dead on Sunday in Sevran, less than 48 hours after a shooting linked to drug trafficking which left one dead and several seriously injured in this town of Seine-Saint-Denis, AFP learned from police sources.
Aged 33 and 35, the two men killed were known for violence and drug trafficking, said a second police Source.
Many police officers were present at the scene on Sunday evening, noted an AFP journalist. Two mobile force units were sent to the site, said a police Source.
During the night from Friday to Saturday, a 28-year-old man had already been killed and four others injured during a shooting in the Cité des Beaudottes, an emblematic district of this poor town in the northern suburbs of Paris. Three other gunshot wounds also showed up at the hospital later that night.
“It’s necessarily a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking,” Stéphane Blanchet, DVG mayor of the city, responded to AFP.
On site, 25 7.62 cartridge cases, a caliber used in particular for Kalashnikov-type weapons, were found.
After Marseille, Sevran was the subject of an anti-drug operation “XXL square” on March 25 with the aim of putting a stop to trafficking. In this city, the Rougemont city deal point had been “eradicated”, the police headquarters said on Saturday.
