They are between 19 and 25 years old, but despite their young age, are very unfavourably known to the police: on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 June, five young men were arrested in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Paris by the Research and Intervention Brigade of the Paris Police Prefecture (BRI-PP). Three of them were driving a stolen vehicle; another was wearing an electronic bracelet. All were brought before the court and placed in provisional detention. A sixth individual, living in a seaside resort on the coast of Murcia, in the south-east of Spain, was arrested on 4e district of Paris and released after several checks.
In the eyes of the Crime Department, the criminal brigade of the Police Prefecture and the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis, the gang could well constitute a “killer team” in the service of major drug traffickers active in Sevran, against the backdrop of monitoring the town’s drug dealing points. During the searches, investigators seized two stolen vehicles, jerry cans of petrol, nearly 600 grams of cannabis herb, a Luger automatic pistol and around thirty Kalashnikov cartridges.
This large-scale operation, carried out by the criminal brigade and the PJ of 93, jointly involved in the file, constitutes the continuation of an episode that occurred three weeks earlier, about which the investigators remained particularly discreet: the arrest of Imran B. – whose brother was among the young people arrested during the raid of June 25 and 26.
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On June 5, he was stopped by police officers riding a scooter as he was taking the Chemin du Marais du Souic, a narrow road that runs through fields, alongside farms and agricultural buildings in the Sevran conurbation. He was wearing a balaclava, gloves and a Glock semi-automatic pistol, stocked with about fifteen cartridges including three “COP” rounds, particularly fearsome ammunition, which fragments on impact with a human body and causes serious injuries.
Placed in police custody in the premises of the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental judicial police service, Imran B. remains silent but nevertheless agrees to specify that he is the cousin of a 19-year-old young man, murdered with a bullet in the head on the night of September 10, 2023, the umpteenth episode of a real gang war in Seine-Saint-Denis. Was he preparing to avenge his relative during a punitive solo expedition?
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