Shots were fired near a residence in the Gironde commune, then through a door, causing the death of a young man. An investigation is opened for assassination in an organized gang.
The night was particularly agitated between Saturday and Sunday in Castillon-la-Bataille (Gironde), a rural town not far from Bordeaux. This Saturday, October 22, around two o’clock in the morning, a 24-year-old young man was shot and killed while he was inside an associative premises, specifies the parquet floor of Bordeaux in Figaro. A few hours later, the vehicle of the attackers – still on the run at this time – was found burned about twenty kilometers away. An investigation is opened forgang assassination” and “association of criminals to commit a crime and violence with a weapon“.
The events took place in two stages. Shots were first fired in the air and then at the door of a residence, before the people involved went to an association building. They then used a firearm through a door, hitting the victim in the throat. She died of her injuries.
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“It’s a level of violence we’ve never seen in the city“, deplores the mayor of the town, Jacques Breillat, entrusting his amazement to the Figaro. According to the city councilor, who admits the existence of drug trafficking in his city, “as in all the municipalities of France“, this case demonstrates “a notch of escalation in violence“.
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A possible settling of accounts
This crime would be the work of a gang of young people from the neighboring town of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, where the car was then found, which would also be a stolen vehicle, specifies Jacques Breillat. “When we steal a car, wear a hood and come with weapons to settle scores, we are no longer involved in juvenile delinquency.“, sighs the chosen one. According to him, no doubt: the assassins were looking for someone.
“These armed youths arrived at the residence and looked for the youths. They knew full well where they lived“, continues the mayor. It is because they could not find them that they would have gone to the premises located rue Michel Montaigne, on the departmental road in the direction of Sainte-Foix. “There, they stop and go to a room where there were obviously a number of activities. They fire on the door except the projectile goes through it“, reaching the victim “under the jaw“.
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The investigations are in progress, with hearings of witnesses. The motive is still unknown at this time, however, specifies the parquet floor of Bordeaux, judge competent for this case since Sunday. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday. The victim, born in 1998 in Morocco, was not known to the police or the courts.
Since 2021, the entire municipality of Castillon-la-Bataille has been part of the Republican Reconquest Districts (QRR), a system set up in 2018 to fight crime and trafficking, through additional police means.