Le Figaro Lyon
Numerous bullet holes and traces of blood in the apartment.
A 27-year-old man was seriously injured by a gunshot wound to the chest on Tuesday evening in Villeurbanne, according to information from
LyonMag
confirmed to Le
Figaro
.
Arriving bleeding at the Médipôle hospital where he was dropped off, the young man was then transferred to another establishment in Lyon.
His vital prognosis is still in jeopardy this Thursday.
An investigation into “attempted homicide by an organized gang” was opened by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office, the latter specifies in Le
Figaro
.
The investigations were entrusted to the judicial police in order to identify the perpetrators, their motives and the circumstances of the facts.
Initial observations were made in the apartment on Cours Emile Zola where gunshots had echoed.
Recent months have been marked by repeated shootings in the neighboring Tonkin district of Villeurbanne, linked to drug trafficking.
The arrival of police reinforcements made it possible to silence the guns in December, while arrests and control operations increased.