INFO LA DEPECHE. Toulouse: she eats with her family, a Kalashnikov bullet crosses her apartment
Myriam, her mother and her granddaughter were eating quietly in the living room of their apartment in Bagatelle this Saturday, when a Kalashnikov bullet crossed the living room. The consequences of a war between drug traffickers…
“Saturday, we were eating quietly in the living room when a Kalashnikov bullet went through our apartment,” recalls Myriam (1), a resident of Bagatelle. This grandmother’s voice is full of emotion. And tears stream down her cheeks as she recounts this painful memory. “We could have died. In particular my 11-year-old granddaughter and my 86-year-old mother. The projectile passed through the window before passing a few centimeters above their heads. They had glass on their plates”, testifies with difficulty this 58-year-old lady. Myriam says she is relieved to recount her trauma, which is still very fresh in her mind.
To understand its history, you have to show your eyes tens of meters below, on the Gironde deal point. It is almost 11 p.m. this Saturday when a Mégane RS crosses this neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking. Two hooded men get out of the vehicle, Kalashnikov in hand, and shoot in the air to impress the gallery. No one is targeted but one of their bullets lodges in the wall of an apartment located much higher. “We heard a very loud bang but I didn’t see anything at first. Then my granddaughter cried. I saw a huge hole in the window and an impact in the wall. is very serious”, still blows this fifty-year-old.
It involves three police officers
A few seconds after the incident, the anti-crime brigade, monitoring the area, sets off in pursuit of one of the shooters. Still armed with his Kalashnikov, this 31-year-old man tries to escape before breaking his leg jumping an obstacle. The pain, however, does not prevent him from taking aim at three police officers. He ends up putting down his weapon after several minutes of negotiations. At the same time, his accomplice fled aboard the Mégane. The suspect assisted by Me Sarah Nabet-Claverie and Alexandre Parra-Bruguière ensures that he did not fire any shots. Analyzes are underway to determine this. In the meantime, the prosecutor has assigned the case to an investigating judge. He was indicted on Tuesday and then imprisoned.
“We hope to obtain compensation for the damage. For the moment, the insurance is asking us for a deductible of €400, it’s a shame. We have nothing to do with it. For several months, we have had to move but our requests are systematically We have to be dead to be listened to? I hope our landlord, Toulouse Métropole Habitat, will find a solution. We can’t stay here after this event. I can’t sleep anymore”, confides again Myriam, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She filed a complaint at the police station.
This Thursday, the necessary investigations by the judicial police are continuing, in particular to identify the accomplice, still in the wild. At this stage of the investigation, it would appear that the two suspects are some kind of mercenaries, paid to impress the competition and recover one of the most active deal points in the department.