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Toulon: the frightening daily life of a city, the scene of repeated shootings

2020-08-03T09:58:35.499Z


REPORT - Since the deconfinement, the clashes in the district of Sainte-Musse, located to the east of the city, have exploded against a background of drug trafficking. Settling of scores and shootings provoke anguish and a feeling of abandonment on the part of the inhabitants.


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On June 27, the Toulon municipal police discovered 40 cartridge cases at the foot of a building in Les Œillets, one of the three cities in the Sainte-Musse district. Not far from there, on July 21, a 35-year-old man, released from prison for two months, was shot dead while driving his car in front of his partner and children. Another evening, several detonations alerted the inhabitants. Finally, on July 27, an 18-year-old boy was killed in the middle of the street with four bullets in the back and several in the head. The newspaper regiona l Var Matin , Toulon is in its seventh settling since the beginning of 2020. Looking ahead, the St. Musse district and its neighboring cities involving the Carnations, The Great and Poncette Plain. " The Bermuda Triangle ", as Julien Ventre, departmental secretary of the Syndicat Unit Police SGP-FO du Var, calls it. In the shadow of this violence, the residents surrendered.

From his apartment on the 9th floor of a large

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Source: lefigaro

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