Attempted murder in Toulouse: four suspects
Four men are suspected of being involved in an attempted murder in October in Bagatelle. They were arrested.
In Toulouse, not a day goes by without shots being fired and some hitting their targets causing varying degrees of injury. On Saturday October 30, around 2 p.m., Place Anthonioz-de-Gaulle, in the heart of the Bagatelle district, a 24-year-old young man paid the price (our previous editions). He was the victim of shots that hit him in the legs. Rescued by paramedics, he was hospitalized in critical condition. Result: thirty days of total interruption of work.
The matter was taken very seriously. An investigation was opened and sent by the prosecution to the specialists of the skills unit for people from the departmental security. On the rogatory commission of an examining magistrate, they unraveled the threads of this afternoon where a man could have lost his life. Hearings, verifications, exploitation of images filmed by video protection cameras… the investigators managed to identify four suspects. Men aged 16, 18 and 29 for two of them.
A settling of accounts against a background of trafficking
They were arrested on Tuesday, January 18 and placed in police custody. The police were able to assign everyone a role in this punitive expedition. A sponsor, a shooter, a man in charge of modifying the crime scene by recovering casings and another accomplice. As for the motive of the quartet, it would be a settling of scores against a backdrop of trafficking and in particular contraband cigarettes. The residents of this graceful place moreover “an open-air tobacconist”.
At the end of their police custody, the suspects were brought on Friday for their involvement in this “attempted murder in an organized gang”. They had to be locked up.