Accounts of accounts have been multiplying for a year, on a background of control of territories. Weapons found this week in a narcotic case and the progress of another investigation in Vénissieux ranges a “Marseille syndrome”.
Faced with an unprecedented resurgence of settling of accounts on the background of drug trafficking, the Lyon agglomeration fears the “Marseille syndrome”. Tuesday, June 14, around 11:30 p.m., two young people were killed in the Duchère district, in the 9 e arrondissement. Aged 16 and 20 years old, they were killed with gust of weapons of the Kalashnikov assault rifle type. Investigators noted around forty large caliber cases and found numerous impacts in the passage of the building. Which suggests a prosecution before this double assassination. Witnesses relate the presence of two shooters, in a hood and black outfit, who fled aboard a dark color. Two other victims, aged 15 and 17, were injured by bullets or bursts.
revenge, watchers or lieutenants targeted? Collateral victims? The punitive expedition in connection with drug trafficking is hardly in doubt, according to the first investigations entrusted to the criminal division of the interregional judicial police department. The eighteen floors building, located at 315, avenue Sakharov, is referenced as an active deal of the Lyon region. In this sector, a crew of the anti -crime brigade had heard rafals of automatic weapon, on the evening of October 25, 2021. First signal of an escalation of violence.
Five months later, on March 19, a 16 -year -old teenager was seriously injured in the belly by shots, then, on April 30, around 3 am, shooters aimed at a group gathered around A barbecue, in a nearby square, injuring a young man again. These episodes participate in a very likely territorial war, between two clans which try to control the illegal market which has settled in this long bar of buildings, according to several police sources.
“C ‘ has become dangerous “
For several months, the inhabitants have gotten into the habit of cohabit with the traffickers – a lookout had even installed a lounge chair on a mound, near a roundabout. “It has become dangerous, I am no longer quiet. In the evening, when I go home, I am wary, I have never known this climate, it is not the idea that I have of the Duchère “, Confides a resident, who has lived in front of the building bar for over forty years. “This district has known riots and urban violence problems in the past, it was social tensions. We have never seen shots in the street like that,” added this same resident, who refuses to give her name .
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