Toulouse: shooting this Tuesday noon in Bagatelle, two wounded and one in police custody
A man and a woman were injured on Tuesday noon in a shooting in the Bagatelle district in Toulouse. It could be a settling of scores against the background of cigarette trafficking.
Shots in broad daylight, a stone’s throw from the open air market, and two injured. A new shooting broke out on Tuesday in the heart of Bagatelle, a so-called sensitive city in the Mirail district in Toulouse.
It was about to be noon when an altercation broke out between several protagonists against a background of smuggling cigarettes. Place Anthonioz-de-Gaulle, “an open-air tobacco shop”, note, annoyed, residents, three men have come down from a building on avenue Henri-Desbals, two of whom are equipped with long weapons.
They fired at their target, a man who was shot in the chest. A second person, a woman, a priori totally foreign to the “commercial dispute”, was injured in the arm by ricochet. The main victim, also armed, would have retaliated.
A victim in custody
The attackers quickly fled and fainted in the neighborhood. Immediately informed, the firefighters but also the Samu went to the scene. They medicated the two victims. The woman, more affected, was transported to the University Hospital of Purpan but her life was not in danger. The initial target, who in turn fired, received healing. His condition does not cause concern. This man was arrested and taken into custody.
The police quickly crisscrossed the scene. The experts from the technical and scientific police went to the site where they proceeded, under the eyes of onlookers, to surveys of traces and clues. In particular, they got their hands on a weapon abandoned in a trash can and on cartridge cases.
“We feel taken hostage”
As is often the case in this type of business, few witnesses came forward spontaneously to the police.
The investigation was entrusted to the police of the departmental security. In particular, they must examine the images from the video surveillance cameras. This Tuesday, around the square, some residents regretted a kind of “abandonment of the neighborhood”. “We feel taken hostage,” describes a resident, pointing to the point of sale of cigarettes. There is too much traffic. Police dogs need to be passed off for drugs on a regular basis. This is the only way we will get there perhaps ”.