The Hauts-de-Seine judicial police are in charge of the investigation, opened for “intentional homicide”.
By Le Figaro with AFP
–A young man succumbed to his injuries after being hit by gunfire on Monday afternoon in Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) and his attackers immediately fled, we learned on Tuesday 18 August from corroborating sources. The facts took place around 2 p.m. in an activity zone in the city, according to a police source.
Several individuals arrived in a car, shots were heard by several witnesses and the attackers were said to have left with their vehicle immediately, according to a source close to the investigation. The victim, born in 1995, was shot in the abdomen, she said.
A van that was in the area and of which it is not yet known if it has any connection with the facts also disappeared at the same time. The injured man was immediately “transported by his brother to Beaujon hospital»From Clichy-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine) where he was operated, but he succumbed to his injuries on the night of Monday to Tuesday, according to the same source.
«There is nothing in the victim’s background to suggest that this was a settling of scores“, His criminal record only mentioning a”old conviction“Unrelated”with drug trafficking or with organized crime“, Said a judicial source.
Witnesses were to be interviewed during the day, and video surveillance images are being used, according to these sources. The Hauts-de-Seine judicial police are in charge of the investigation, opened for “voluntary homicide».
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