Besançon: demise of a 15-year-old boy, shot on Monday

A 15-year-old boy died on Sunday after being critically injured by a gunshot Monday within the Planoise district of Besançon, in opposition to a backdrop of drug trafficking, stated a supply conversant in the matter. The sufferer died Sunday round 6 p.m. in hospital, stated the identical supply.

Monday in the midst of the afternoon, {the teenager} and one other 16-year-old, nonetheless hospitalized on Sunday, have been hit within the chest by 9 mm projectiles, defined after the very fact the general public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Coats. The shooter or shooters moved a priori “on foot”, he added.

“A drama that should unite us”, feedback the mayor

In response to the primary investigations, “the presumed lever of the passage to the act can be drug trafficking”, specified the supply near the file. “Besançon has simply skilled a brand new dramatic stage linked to drug trafficking which plagues cities and kills our younger folks”, reacted on Twitter on Monday the environmental mayor of town, Anne Vignot, who participated Friday in a rally in opposition to violence on this well-liked district within the west of town.

“I name for calm. We should get out of this spiral of violence, ”stated the East Republican the prefect of Doubs, Jean-François Colombet, fearing reprisals. On August 14 and 16, two brothers have been additionally shot and wounded in the identical neighborhood. The investigation carried out collectively by the judicial police and the departmental safety of Besançon has not but established a potential hyperlink between these two episodes of capturing. CRS specialists within the struggle in opposition to city violence in delicate neighborhoods arrived Monday night in Besançon to make sure that calm is maintained.

Between November 2019 and March 2020, the Planoise Republican Reconquest (QRR) district, which has a inhabitants of 20,000, was the scene of violent clashes between two rival gangs vying for management of drug trafficking. This gang struggle had given rise to 18 episodes of gunfire, leading to 11 accidents in complete on either side, together with minors, and a 23-year-old useless. The murder investigation remains to be ongoing, however a complete of 57 folks have been indicted for the capturing episodes, seven of whom have already been sentenced to between 3 and 10 years in jail. Others are to be tried within the fall.