Near Toulouse, he was hit by nine bullets last July: eleven people arrested
On the night of July 10 to 11, a man was injured by 9 bullets in a street in Saint-Alban, north of Toulouse. Eight months later, the research section of the Toulouse gendarmerie apprehended eight people.
Eleven people were apprehended by the research section of the Toulouse gendarmerie on Tuesday and Wednesday. They are suspected of being involved, directly or indirectly, in an attempted murder that occurred in the town of Saint-Alban, north of Toulouse, on the night of July 10 to 11.
That evening, a 31-year-old man stopped in front of a friend’s house. He is talking to this girl when a vehicle slows down near them. At least one individual comes out and presses the trigger of his pistol ten times. The target is hit in the chest, leg and arm. Despite these injuries, the victim finds the strength to take refuge in a house where one of the neighbors saves his life. Meanwhile, the shooter(s) smoke the leak and the used car is found burnt out a few days later.
Weapons of war found
After several months of investigation, the soldiers have therefore identified eleven suspects. During the searches, the police also recovered two weapons of war, four kilos of herbal cannabis and several thousand euros in cash. This attempted murder could be linked to drug trafficking… Moreover, the majority of people placed in police custody know the victim.
The hearings required by the investigators in several brigades of the department are still in progress. As is often the case in the industry, these men and women, assisted in particular by Mare Morgane Dupoux, Emmanuelle Franck, Ravyn Issa, Pierre Lebonjour and Alexandre Martin did not turn out to be very talkative. Their lawyers do not wish to speak out any longer. Several suspects should be presented this Friday to the judge in charge of the instruction at the end of the 96 hours of interrogations.