Crime. A youngster shot lifeless on Monday in Besançon.

A 15-year-old boy died on Sunday after being severely injured by bullets on Monday within the Planoise district of Besançon, towards a backdrop of drug trafficking, we realized from a supply conversant in the matter.

The sufferer died Sunday round 6:00 p.m. in hospital, the supply mentioned.

Monday in the course of the afternoon, {the teenager} and one other 16-year-old, nonetheless hospitalized on Sunday, had been hit within the chest by 9-millimeter projectiles, defined after the very fact the general public prosecutor of Besançon Etienne Manteaux .

The shooter or shooters moved a priori “on foot”, he added.

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 Besançon Anne Vignot who participated in a rally towards violence on this well-liked district on Friday. from the west of the town.

“I name for appeasement. We should get out of this spiral of violence, ”declared to the East Republican the prefect of Doubs Jean-François Colombet, fearing reprisals.

On August 14 and 16, two brothers had 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 attainable hyperlink between these two episodes of taking pictures.

CRS specialists within the battle towards city violence in delicate neighborhoods arrived Monday night in Besançon to make sure that calm is maintained.

gang struggle

Between November 2019 and March 2020, the Planoise Republican Reconquest (QRR) district, which has 20,000 inhabitants, was the scene of violent clashes between two rival gangs who had been combating over management of drug trafficking.

This gang struggle had given rise to 18 episodes of gunfire, leading to 11 accidents in complete on each side, together with minors, and a 23-year-old lifeless.

The murder investigation continues to be ongoing, however a complete of 57 folks have been indicted for the taking pictures episodes, seven of whom have already been sentenced to between 3 and 10 years in jail. Others are to be tried within the fall.

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