Why travel more than 700 km with the crime car without even bothering to burn it?
This is one more question to be answered by the police officers of the criminal brigade in the investigation into the shooting which left one dead and four injured Monday evening rue Popincourt in Paris (XIe).
On Wednesday afternoon, the shooters' vehicle was found in Nîmes by a local anti-crime brigade crew, Objectif Gard announced this Thursday morning.
The Peugeot 308, the registration of which the police learned very quickly, was hidden in a cellar in the popular city of Pissevin.
"A district of Nîmes plagued by drug trafficking" and the "numerous settling of scores", specifies the media.
The car wasn't even on fire.
As a result, it “is the subject of numerous scientific expertises”.
One of the defendants still in police custody, the other still wanted
Monday around 9:30 p.m., two hooded men burst into the shisha bar “La petite échée”.
Several shots are fired in the direction of a 38-year-old man who was seated with his brother and friends.
The victim, who was known for an old narcotics case, will die on the spot.
The other injured were apparently hit by shards of glass.
Not all customers give in to panic.
Several of them threw themselves on the aggressor armed with an AK 47 rifle. He was neutralized on the steps of the establishment.
“He was beaten up in the process,” slips a source close to the investigation.
The other assailant managed to escape in the Peugeot 308. He is still wanted.
This Thursday morning, the shooter neutralized on the spot was still in police custody as part of this investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor's office for murder in an organized gang, attempted murder in an organized gang, association of criminals with a view to committing a crime and acquisition and possession of a category A weapon. The respondent told the police that he was a minor and lived in Seine-Saint-Denis.
He would also be known to the police.
Investigators are still exploring the trail of a settling of accounts.
