TOULOUSE NEWS INFO. Shots fired at shopping center, three people arrested
By Guillaume Laurent
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This has – a priori – strictly nothing to do with the scene which took place a few kilometers away, and five hours later, where a motorist ran into the police and other shots were fired, at close to Ikea in Roques. At the stroke of 9 p.m., Monday August 8, 2022, while the Carrefour hypermarket was closing its doors, detonations detained the Portet sur Garonne shopping center, South of Toulouserapporteur of the witnesses of the scene to Toulouse news.
“The waitress told us that someone armed had entered”
This Monday evening, Yohan came to dinner with colleagues for a work meeting, in a restaurant overlooking the parking lot of the supermarket, when a waitress tumbled completely panicked into the room, where there are about twenty customers: “ We were eating when the waitress told us that they were going to close the doors of the restaurant because someone armed had entered the shopping centre, ”says this witness. “She then showed us a car outside, saying it was that of the criminals”.
“It was a bit of a panic. We had the worst: is it an attack? We all got up in the restaurant, without knowing what to do: hide under the tables, or go out and leave without paying? The waitress offered to accompany us outside, it was completely irrational…”
The gendarmes control the scene in 10 minutes
According to this witness, “The gendarmes arrived very quickly, in less than ten minutes, on board several vehicles”. Another source specifies that “some of them were already there for another incident which occurred before”.
“About five minutes later, we finally paid the bill, before leaving. It was on leaving that we heard two or three shots held back”.
Yohan and his colleagues “hid in the car” while waiting to be told to leave.
No injuries and three arrests
The gendarmes, not very forthcoming on this current affair, confirm to Toulouse News that the soldiers of the Portet brigade intervened to multiple shots fired “Around the shopping center”, without it being known precisely whether the bullets merged outside or inside the center. But they “did not cause any injuries”.
The police managed to challenge three protagonists of the incident. In their twenties, these three individuals were taken into custody. Hearings were underway this Tuesday morning by the gendarmes of the Muret research brigade. According to the first elements, it is “a dispute” between several individuals who would have gone wrong.
Contacted, the Portet shopping center has not yet responded to our requests.
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