A 30-year-old man, known to the police and justice services, was seriously wounded by gunshot on Monday, September 6 in Lucciana in Haute-Corse giving rise to the opening of an investigation for attempted murder by an organized gang, a indicated the prosecutor of Bastia.
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“
Around 10:50 am, he was leaving his residence by car when he was attacked by several armed men who opened fire on him,
” a source familiar with the matter
told
AFP.
The man, "
seriously injured
" by a "
bullet in the face
", was evacuated to the Bastia hospital center, emergency services said.
He was then transferred to the Nice hospital, according to corroborating sources.
An investigation opened for "
attempted murder in an organized gang
" was opened and entrusted in co-referral to the judicial police and the research section, said in a statement the prosecutor of the Republic of Bastia, Arnaud Viornery.
The individual already convicted in 2015
He was followed by the judicial police and the research section of the gendarmerie in several cases including one headed by the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseille in charge of organized crime cases in which he is suspected of criminal association, specified to AFP a source close to the case.
He was sentenced in July 2015 by the Marseille Criminal Court for participation in an association of criminals with a view to drug trafficking and carrying weapons and ammunition to three years in prison in a case of drug trafficking and d weapons in the bunkers of the former SNCM shipping company.
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This traffic was directed, in Corsica, by a team of criminals known as the Master Café, in reference to a bar in Lucciana where the criminals met. Some 80,000 euros in cash, a kilo of cocaine, firearms and ammunition had been found during searches.