The facts took place around 9:30 p.m., rue Popincourt, “two individuals came down from a vehicle and fired on two individuals seated on the terrace of a bar”, detailed the prefecture, the hypothesis D ‘A settlement of accounts is privileged at this stage.
Le Monde with AFP
A man was shot dead and four other people were injured more slightly during a shooting on Monday July 18 in the 11 e district of Paris, we learned With the Paris police headquarters, which said that a suspect had been arrested. The second suspect “managed to flee,” said the same source.
“We saw a car arriving, they went out with a weapon -I would have said a machine gun or a kalashnikov -they fired and they were barred,” testified to the France -Presse agency, Antoine, boss of a nearby restaurant. “I just had time to tell the staff to go inside. Everyone is running,” he added.
“It lasted 20-30 seconds. I immediately understood that it was a settling of accounts and that the other establishments would not be affected,” assured the restaurateur of this district marked by the attacks of January and November 2015.
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Wounded people have not been shown in bullets, according to the first elements collected by the police headquarters.
According to the mayor of 11 e arrondissement, François Vauglin, the shooting took place in a “chicha bar”. “Bar customers have mastered one of the two attackers,” added the elected official in a tweet, denouncing a “barbaric act”. Many chairs were visible on the sidewalk in front of the bar and a security perimeter had been set up by the police, noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency on the spot.
An investigation was opened for “voluntary homicide and attempted homicide”, has a source close to the file. It was entrusted to the second district of the Parisian judicial police.