An investigation was opened after the death of a young man killed by a stabbing weapon during a brawl in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis) opposing sellers of cigarettes on the street, we learned Friday from sources concordant.
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The victim, 19, was " fatally injured by stabbing the carotid artery " on Thursday around 9:30 p.m., a police source said. An investigation was opened for intentional homicide, but also attempted intentional homicide on a second victim aged 18 years, indicated the parquet floor of Bobigny. It was entrusted to investigators from the judicial police.
The alleged perpetrator was still wanted on Friday morning. The altercation took place Thursday evening on the place du 8-mai 1945, one of the main crossroads of this city. The first investigations favor the trail of a " dispute between sellers of street cigarettes ," added a police source. This activity is proving successful for traffickers, emboldened by the increases in the price of tobacco in France.
On March 1, the package of Marlboro, the best-selling brand in France, will thus reach the symbolic bar of ten euros. The main traffic points are located north of Paris and its close suburbs, as well as in Marseille, where reinforced controls are carried out by the authorities. The sellers " can stab themselves for a territory, for a place " but for the time being " it is not as bloody " as the settling of scores linked to drug trafficking, recently analyzed a source close to these records.
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