A man was killed in Dijon during the night from Saturday to Sunday while he was sleeping in his apartment, after exchanges of fire around a deal point located near his building, we learned from sources concordant.
The shooting took place near a deal point
Sunday around 12:30 a.m., individuals traveling in a vehicle fired at buildings and “a 55-year-old man was fatally injured by one of the shots while he was at his home”, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Dijon Olivier Caracotch in a message to AFP. The man, declared dead at 12:50 a.m., was in his apartment located on the first floor with his wife and daughter, said a police source.
The shooting took place near a deal point in the sensitive Stalingrad district and two individuals are on the run, according to the same source. No further details were provided on the victim but “everything suggests that he is a collateral victim,” said this source. “My father and I, with my mother, were woken up by a succession of gunshots, then it stopped. Then it started again, and when we went to see my father who was sleeping in his bed, he was dead,” his daughter, aged 23, told AFP on the spot, who wished to remain anonymous.
She specified that her 24-year-old brother was also in the apartment of this Kosovar family who arrived in France 14 years ago. “A few years ago, there were already gunshots on the facade of the building which had already hit our apartment,” explained the young woman, believing that it was “surely a settlement accounts”. “I would like France to better protect its inhabitants, I want to leave Dijon,” she said in shock and in tears.
“It’s a deal point, it’s been like that for a long time”
The victim’s son said for his part that his father had suffered a heart attack in the past “because he got angry because of the people around”. “It’s a deal point, it’s been like that for a long time,” intervened a neighbor who did not want to give his name. Another neighbor in their fifties said: “They’ve been coming here for a long time to get coke, it’s a real business, they’ve been queuing since 10 a.m..”
The neighborhood with tree-lined avenues, where clean HLMs have recently been built, is located behind an asylum seeker center and is home to several families of political refugees or asylum seekers.
The Territorial Directorate of the Judicial Police (DTPJ) was contacted, according to the prosecutor. CRS 8, the CRS unit specializing in maintaining order, will be sent to Dijon, added the Ministry of the Interior.
Turf wars between traffickers are causing more and more victims
Territorial wars between traffickers are causing more and more victims, due to the use of more deadly weapons. In Bouches-du-Rhône, which is particularly devastated, these conflicts have killed more than forty people this year, including three collateral victims. A 24-year-old young woman was notably mowed down by a Kalashnikov burst in September, while she was at home with her mother, on the 3 floor of a building in Marseille.
In Nîmes, ten-year-old Fayed lost his life at the end of August, shot in a shooting linked to the drug war in the working-class district of Pissevin. Nine people, including a 17-year-old minor, were indicted in mid-November in this investigation.