INFO THE DEPECH. Toulouse: a young man shot in the Bagatelle sector
A 24-year-old man was shot and wounded this Saturday in Bagatelle. The track of settling scores is favored by the police. This place was already the scene of a shooting last September.
Gunshots in the middle of the day and one injured. A 24-year-old young man was shot at 2 p.m. this Saturday afternoon in the Bagatelle sector.
According to the first testimonies collected around this shopping square, two individuals opened fire and the projectile hit the victim in the leg, while she is near a car, in the public parking lot. Before fleeing, the suspects would have taken the time to pick up the casings that had fallen to the ground, like professionals … A passer-by would then have rescued the young man, while awaiting the arrival of the ambulance service. Quickly taken care of by the Smur and the firefighters, the injured was transported to CHU Purpan in absolute urgency. His wound was bleeding enormously according to the customers of the tobacco shop, located about ten meters away.
“A place occupied by undocumented migrants”
Is this a new account settlement? A dispute for another reason? This Saturday around 3 p.m., while dozens of rodent people still near the scene of the shooting, the law of silence prevails. The oldest people all the same recall that the place Geneviève Anthonioz de Gaulle is now “controlled”, by visibly very aggressive undocumented migrants, followers of drug and cigarette trafficking. “It’s a new settling of scores. Violence is now everywhere here, day and night,” warns a forty-something, living in the neighborhood. On his right, police have established a security perimeter and are continuing the findings. The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office has entrusted the investigation to departmental security officials. They must in particular examine the images of the video surveillance cameras to specify the circumstances of this attack.
Already in September, on the same square, two people had been targeted by gunfire, under the background of cigarette trafficking. “We feel taken hostage. There is too much traffic. Police dogs need to be passed off for drugs on a regular basis. There is only like that that one will arrive there perhaps “, had then claimed a local resident. A call for help heard by the police force which multiplies the operations. But the battle will be long.