A young man known to the police for drug trafficking died on the night of Monday August 24 to Tuesday August 25 in Toulouse, shot dead in the sensitive Izards district in Toulouse, said a police source.
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The victim, 17 years old according to this source, 19 years old according to firefighters, died in hospital. The young man had been taken there seriously injured after being shot in the back around 11:00 p.m., Chemin des Izards, in a Toulouse district facing significant drug trafficking.
Weapons found
Two suspects, in their twenties and thirties were arrested shortly after, after a police chase against a vehicle that had stormed from the scene of the shooting, another police source said. The two men were stopped near the stationary vehicle. In the trunk, weapons were found, according to the same source. The regional judicial police service (SRPJ) in Toulouse was responsible for the investigation.
On August 10, a man was killed and two wounded in a shooting " with a large caliber weapon " in the same neighborhood, which occurred shortly before 11:00 pm near a metro station. The man killed, aged 29, was not known to the police, unlike the two injured, known for drug cases and already convicted.
In mid-July, a man in his twenties was shot dead in the middle of the night near the Toulouse Stadium At the end of June, sixteen people were arrested as part of a major operation to fight drug trafficking in the Izards district.