Two men were killed this Friday, May 6 in the Plan district in Valence (Drôme). The track of the settling of accounts on the background of drug trafficking is considered.
The incident took place around 5 a.m. Upon their arrival, the police and an ambulance team noted the presence of a first 38-year-old individual, the victim of several gunshots to the chest, in the immediate vicinity of a vehicle. parked on the public road.
The victim could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at the scene, said the Valencian prosecutor’s office.
The man was known to the courts. His criminal record shows 20 mentions for various drug, traffic and violent offenses.
An open investigation
About a hundred meters from this first vehicle, another person was discovered on the driver’s side aboard a second vehicle embedded in a tree, also the victim of several gunshots.
This other man, also aged 38, was evacuated but died quickly from his injuries.
An investigation was opened in the act of voluntary homicide and entrusted to the judicial police, under the direction of the Parquet of Valence.
Autopsies of both bodies have been ordered and will determine the exact circumstances of the death of the two men.