It is the shock Nantes. Thursday night, a 15-year-old boy was killed and two others had been injured after a taking pictures within the well-liked Port-Boyer district, north of the town heart. The Minister of the Inside, Laurent Nuñezwent to the positioning this Friday morning.
Arriving shortly earlier than 11 a.m., he reaffirmed his “intact and complete” dedication within the conflict against drug trafficking, who seems to be the supply of the taking pictures. “Sure, the struggle is sophisticated however we is not going to lose this conflict,” he declared. 20 Minutes takes inventory of what we all know.
One useless, two injured
The taking pictures broke out round 7:30 p.m., concentrating on a bunch of younger folks in entrance of a constructing situated within the metropolis of Port-Boyer. A 15-year-old boy is useless, shot within the entrance corridor. The shooters then pursued one of many two different boys to the thirteenth ground, the place he had taken refuge in an residence, in accordance with a police supply.
In complete, two minors, aged 13 and 14 in accordance with a number of media, had been injured: one critically, handled “between life and demise”, the opposite extra evenly, within the thigh. This Friday, the Nantes prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, and the Minister of the Inside confirmed that the 2 minors had been “now out of hazard”.
The perpetrators on the run
Based on preliminary info, the perpetrators arrived on the scene of the taking pictures with a two-wheeler. They then fled. A resident of the neighborhood spoke to AFP of “folks sporting hoods and dressed all in black, working within the grass”.
“All police and justice assets have to be used to arrest and condemn the perpetrators of this homicide,” responded the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rollandwho went there. The investigation was entrusted to the Organized and Specialised Crime Division (DCOS) of the Nantes police station.
The path of a taking pictures linked to drug trafficking
Behind these pictures, the path of a taking pictures linked to drug trafficking appears to be confirmed. As of Thursday night, the Nantes prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, spoke of “a settling of scores linked to offenses in opposition to drug laws”. This Friday morning, Laurent Nunez agreed on this path. “Which doesn’t imply (…) that the people who had been affected and a fortiori the one who died, had been linked to trafficking,” he added.
Based on his statements, the situation of the taking pictures is a “very coveted” deal level. 5 traffickers had been arrested by the nationwide police in March on this space. On the finish of April, a shooting had already left residents in mourning. A younger man was killed and one other critically injured by gunfire within the neighborhood. The 2 victims, recognized to the courts, had been focused by a shooter with a pistol, who had fled.
