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Six people are currently under investigation for murder in an organized gang, attempted murder in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association. Four are locked up in this case
Saturday January 2, 2021, around 10:50 pm Young people are at Place Ginette-Neveu, in the Aubiers district in Bordeaux, when a vehicle approaches. The bursts of fire from an automatic fire weapon leave the cockpit and leave around forty casings in place.
Lionel, 16, is found on the ground, shot. He will succumb to his neck injuries. Four other victims will be identified. Three teenagers aged 13 to 16 managed to escape upstairs. A thirty-something wounded by a bullet in the calf will present himself to the emergency room.
Escalating tensions
This is the neighborhood that seemed targeted. Lionel would be a collateral victim. “The facts are part of an escalation of tensions observed between neighborhoods for several weeks”, advance at the time the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, Frédérique Porterie. She talks about Aubiers, Chantecrit and the Grand Parc.
One aggression leading to another, it is now with firearms that accounts are settled. The day before the crime, a young person was shot and wounded in the Chantecrit district. Two of his brothers are among the suspects named by public rumor and social media as responsible for the fatal shooting. A real manhunt with photo and promise of reward is launched.
Until four young people were arrested, a few days after the shooting, in a car during a traffic check. Two more arrests will follow in March. Six people are now indicted for murder in an organized gang, attempted murder in an organized gang and / or participation in a criminal association. Four are locked up in this case. All deny their participation from near or far.
Pour Me Christian Blazy, one of the defense lawyers, “this case carries a terrible weight of misfortune. However, the so-called probative elements remain questionable. Several nullities concerning the conditions of the arrest or the requests for release were rejected.