In the Vieux-Saint-Ouen district he was Sosso, rather than Sofiane.
A diminutive affectionate as was this young man of 25 years in the opinion of residents and many local personalities.
"An adorable young person, a beautiful spirit", summarizes Jacqueline Rouillon, former mayor (PCF) of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) and very close to the victim.
The short life of Sofiane Mjaiber tragically ended in the night of Monday to Tuesday, in the district where he still lived, the city Soubise, in a 15-storey tower which overhangs the oldest part of the city.
Sofiane was coldly shot.
He was discovered by the police shortly before midnight in one of the cellars of a building.
A bullet in the thorax.
Beside him lay another victim, Tidiane Bagayoko, 17, wounded just as sharply from several bullets in the chest and neck.
Tidiane was originally from the Arago city in Saint-Ouen.
The police officers who discovered the bodies admit: “It was a real butchery.
"About ten 7.65 cartridge cases were found on the ground.
The author is still actively sought.
"Twelve people are in police custody for murders and attempted murder in an organized gang", indicates the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
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Only one man was seen entering the building and heading determinedly towards the cellars, armed with a small caliber.
“He knew where he was going and who he was going to find.
It is an execution ”, indicates a source close to the file.
The investigation was entrusted to the criminal brigade.
The hypothesis of a settling of scores against a background of drug trafficking remains privileged.
The Soubise district is one of the big deal points in Saint-Ouen.
A source close to the file affirms that "the oldest
(Editor's note: Sofiane)
was identified as being the head of the local traffic network".
The shooting in the Soubise city of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) on the night of September 14 to 15, 2020 left two dead and one injured.
LP / Matthieu Turel
In any case, the emergency services arrived shortly afterwards failed to revive the victims.
The killer injured another young person: a 16-year-old teenager who was shot in the legs.
It is he who would have provided the indications allowing to locate the bodies of Sofiane and Tidiane.
Committed to an association and member of the PCF
Immediately, fear and depression seized the Soubise district.
Sofiane's personality has a lot to do with it.
In shock, Jacqueline Rouillon confides: “I don't want to believe it.
Not him.
He wanted too much to have a good life.
He had also resumed studies in BTS commerce and human resources, but he had not managed to find an internship supervisor this year, like many young people.
"
He was also a fellow activist.
He had taken his card from the PCF and was a member of the Citoyens solidaires association.
“He was very present in local life, but he never appeared on a list,” she explains.
The former mayor especially wants to retain his "endearing" personality.
"Immediately, he triggered sympathy."
Denis Vemclefs, elected opposition member, adds: “We had a lot of discussions on the future of working-class neighborhoods.
He had a real political conscience.
"
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Tidiane, who was shot dead beside him, was a youth from the Arago neighborhood.
Younger, he also aroused sympathy, even in the ranks of some Saint-Ouen police officers: “When we controlled him, he was always respectful.
We were all disgusted to learn of his death, ”says an official.
This Tuesday morning, at the foot of the building, an old brown armchair is still there, indifferent to the comings and goings.
"Young people squat there all the time, they traffic, they don't let people go home," thunders an old lady from the neighborhood.
"In all of Saint-Ouen, it's hell"
Relatives of the victims presented themselves to the police, still numerous, in front of the 15-story tower.
Two men embrace and enter the building together.
A little later, a woman sobs and almost collapses.
She walks away on the arm of a man.
"The whole neighborhood is in mourning, this family is known here", assures a resident.
The day before, at the beginning of the night, a neighbor says she was alerted by the screams of a woman.
Very quickly, she saw “about fifty police officers” tumbling down who took two victims out of the building.
“They tried to resuscitate them for a good hour and then they put a sheet over their bodies.
I couldn't sleep after that, ”she says.
This new outbreak of violence illustrates the endless turf war for the control of the juicy Saint-Ouen drug points.
Since June, the settling of scores with firearms has not stopped in the city.
In early July, a man in his thirties was shot in the back and remained in a coma for a while.
“In all of Saint-Ouen, it's hell, ignites a resident of the Place d'Armes, a few meters from the scene of the double murder. Calm, we want calm. At the request of the mayor (PS) Karim Bouamrane, the prefect deployed additional police forces in the Vieux-Saint-Ouen district on Tuesday evening.