After a year 2020 marked by sharp violence drop, a series of firearms account regulations related to drug trafficking has hit the city from the beginning of 2021.
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His weapon has probably been halted. The witnesses, stunned, will remember the sound for a long time that she has produced: “click, click, click, click.” The shooter could have renounce … but he left to his BMW to go looking for another. A few seconds later, this Wednesday, September 29, three young Nantes 18 and 19 years old were wounded by bullet near a bench, under the eyes of inhabitants rushed, at the time of the snack and close to the district shops of Breil-Malville, Nantes.
One, born in Chechnya and Russian nationality, was touched at the thorax by a 9 millimeter caliber through bullet. His days are not in danger. “A miracle”, according to a close thing. The others have been injured in the legs. The shooter, he went back into the car, which was found a little later, abandoned 2 kilometers from the city.
This new sequence has increased the number of bullet wounded in Nantes since the beginning of the year. In January, a 15-year-old had lost life at the foot of the towers of another neighborhood, the Dervallers, mortally reached by shots. At this address, a very profitable deal point then had to be dismantled by the narcotics brigade of the departmental security after long months of investigations.
“Even death does not frighten them anymore”
The juicy “commerce” had then started again at speed Grand V. Nantes is not Marseille, where 15 people died over the same period, in state regulations related to drug trafficking. But 44 shootings have already been identified in the city since the beginning of the year. And the phenomenon worries. “Already eight fire openings since I deposited my suitcases in Nantes: what was usual in Fort-de-France can not be in Nantes,” said Monday, 27 September, during his official installation, the new Attorney of the Republic, Renaud Gaudeul, arrived a month earlier from Martinique. “Narcotics trafficking is a scourge that destabilizes all social relations and directly generates other plagues, including networking account regulations that are themselves at the origin of the circulation of arms”, “he added .
Two days later, his parquet floor already opened a new survey for “attempted homicide organized” and seized, once again, the territorial direction of the judicial police (DTPJ). On the other hand, the investigators had arrested a 17-year-old, suspected of having hurt another Nantes in early August. The shooter had opened fire from a moving clio. A bullet had reached the temple of a 21-year-old who did not move anymore without his blade vest because he felt threatened. The victim has since lost the use of an eye.
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