VIDEO. Toulouse: the raid comes after shooting at Bagatelle and discovers an empty apartment
The Bagatelle district was cordoned off for four hours this Monday, January 30. Witnesses assured that a man had fired from the balcony of his apartment, but the Raid, which intervened on the spot, only found an empty apartment.
A neighborhood completely cordoned off by dozens of police. The Bagatelle sector in Toulouse was totally off limits on Monday afternoon. No vehicle or pedestrian was allowed to enter a perimeter of several hundred meters around the rue de la Charente.
A little earlier, around 2 p.m., witnesses had contacted the police to report the presence of a man who allegedly fired from the balcony of the second floor of a building. The alert was taken very seriously.
The children who found themselves in nearby schools, including the Ronsard nursery and primary school, the Stendhal, the Joachim du Bellay school, were confined. “The police came to tell us that they were looking for a thief around the school so we watched a movie while waiting,” said a kindergarten student, offered by her sister and her mother, when she left.
The latter confirms: “The children did not know what happened outside so as not to frighten them”. The parents, on the other hand, were all notified by phone or text of the situation. “I was very scared. I am reassured to find my daughter and I want to go home quickly”, testified another mother, her child tight in her arms.
empty apartment
The neighborhood was cordoned off for four hours. As a safety measure, fearing a potentially dangerous entrenchment, the gas and electricity were cut off during this turn of time. Firefighters were on alert nearby. The Raid’s elite police intervened. They were finally able to enter the apartment from which the shots were reported.
No one is inside. Verifications were granted around this residence but no suspect was arrested. An investigation is opened.