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Besançon shooting: the perpetrators on the run, security controversy

The three injured, including a 14-year-old adolescent, are still hospitalized.

Thehe perpetrators of the heavy weapon shooting that killed three people on Wednesday in a sensitive area of ​​Besançon were still at large on Thursday, an incident that sparked a concert of reactions among the candidates for the municipal elections, a few months before the election.

The three injured (two men aged 30 and 31 and a 14-year-old boy) are out of danger on Thursday but remain hospitalized, Besançon deputy public prosecutor Margaret Parietti told AFP.

The vital prognosis of one of the 30-something, a time between life and death, “is no longer engaged,” added the magistrate. He had been hit by two bullets “in the chest,” she said in a statement.

The other 30-year-old man, who suffered a serious thigh injury, was also operated on, the statement said.

As for the third wounded, a 14-year-old adolescent hit by a “bullet fragment” in the hip, he was also hospitalized, according to the same source.

The three victims will be heard later by the investigators of the interregional direction of the judicial police (DIPJ) of Dijon, seized of the head of attempted homicide, and who for the moment have not carried out any arrest, said Ms. Parietti .

An “abandoned” neighborhood

The fight against trafficking is one of the stated priorities of the Besançon prosecution. But, a few months before the municipal elections in March 2020, this umpteenth incident in Planoise sparked the start of controversy around the security issue, with candidates calling for the “reconquest” of an “abandoned” district.

LREM candidate, the deputy Eric Alauzet called to “restore the republican order”, proposing to widen the “missions” of the municipal police force and to arm the agents bisontins.

At the head of a list of EELV, PS and PCF, Anne Vignot called for the “reconquest of territories abandoned for years”.

On the LR side, candidate Ludovic Fagaut wants to “restore authority”, while Senator Jacques Grosperrin pleads for a “curfew”.

The district is not “abandoned”, swept in L’Est Républicain the LREM Jean-Louis Fousseret, mayor of Besançon since 2001 and not a candidate for his re-election. Planoise “is not and will not become a lawless area,” he insisted.

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