Lyon: seven suspects arrested by judicial police in investigation into deadly shooting of La Duchère

Field exchanges occurred during the operation launched by the judicial police, which intervenes within the framework of a investigation into a series of settling of drug trafficking.

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Seven suspects were arrested on the night of Tuesday 11 to Wednesday October 12 in a vast operation carried out by the judicial police (PJ) in Lyon, in the Duchère district, under particularly tense conditions. According to information from the world, several suspects are suspected of an involvement in a previous settling of accounts, which had killed two dead on June 14.

The criminals were preparing to go back to the act, according to the investigators. Convinced of an imminent action, the PJ decided to intervene. Shooting exchanges occurred during the operation, without making any injuries. These arrests are part of an open judicial investigation after several bloody episodes, which occurred in the popular district of La Duchère, in the 9 e district of Lyon.

Among the suspects, the investigators hope to have identified the alleged perpetrators of the double assassination perpetrated on June 14, in the evening. Two young people, aged 16 and 20, had been slaughtered, with gusts of assault rifle Kalashnikov. Investigators had found dozens of 7.62 caliber cases on the scene, and found numerous bullet impacts in the passage of the building. Witnesses had told the presence of two shooters, in a hood and black outfit, fleeing aboard a dark color. Two other victims, aged 15 and 17, had been injured by bullets or bursts.

These facts had occurred in the eighteen floors building, avenue Andreï-Sakharov, known as an active deal in the Lyon region. A first worrying signal had taken place in the evening of October 25, 2021. A patrol from the anti -crime brigade (BAC) had heard a burst of automatic weapon near this sector. On March 19, 2022, a 16 -year -old teenager was seriously injured in the belly by shots and then, on April 30, around 3 am, shooters had targeted a group gathered around a barbecue, in a nearby square, injuring a young man again.

This probable war of territories, between two clans which sought to control the illegal market installed in this long building bar, aroused strong concerns with the population, and, for the police, the fear of an uncontrollable Spiral of violence.

The circulation of weapons of war in the hands of criminals was confirmed this week in the Lyon region, with another operation carried out by the departmental security on Tuesday. The Lyonnais police officers found a Kalashnikov rifle at the home of a suspect, near Villeurbanne (Rhône), during the arrest of a team of seven criminals suspected of a series of breakages in several departments in the region.

/Media reports.