twenty casings found on the ring road on Christmas Eve
A fast and violent scene. This is what the first elements of the investigation into the shootings that occurred on Christmas Eve
to Avignon. UN vehicle was riddled with bullets Saturday December 24 on the Charles de Gaulle ring road around 11 p.m. The driver and the passenger, aged 24, are still hospitalized on Monday, but the vital prognosis of the man is no longer engaged. He was hit in several places on his body.
Near the pharmacy, at the corner of avenue de la Croix-Rouge, the investigators of the judicial police found a twenty Kalashnikov casings. The hood of the Renault Clio is largely perforated by bullets. The scenario takes shape over time. The car was targeted at a red light. The or the shooter found themselves in another vehicle which would have arrived on the spot by a counter-alley of the ring road. For the time being, the track of a settling of scores on the background of drug trafficking is not mentioned.
A third person in the car?
This is one of the gray areas of the file: the erasure of a third person within this Renault Clio who could be the real target of these shots. Investigators are investigating this lead. The profile of the two people injured on Saturday question. The passenger is not known to justice. On the other hand, the driver yes, but for minor offences, unrelated to narcotics, hence the caution in evoking a settling of scores.
Weapons of war shootings are on the rise
The days pass and the scenes resemble each other. In the space of three weeks, it is already the second time that shots have been fired in the middle of the street in Avignon: on Christmas Eve on the ring road and on December 1 in the Saint-Jean district. At the beginning of the month, two young people aged 18 and 24 were killed following Kalashnikov fire at the bottom of a building. At the end of October, on the 30th, a 16-year-old “watchman” died on rue de l’Abbé Pierre-Henri Requin in the Monclar district.