A 15-year-old boy died on Sunday after being seriously injured by bullets on Monday in the Planoise district of Besançon, against a backdrop of drug trafficking, we learned from a source familiar with the matter.
The victim died Sunday around 6 p.m. at the hospital, said this source.
Monday in the middle of the afternoon, the teenager and another 16-year-old, still hospitalized on Sunday, were hit in the chest by 9-millimeter projectiles, explained after the fact the public prosecutor of Besançon Etienne Manteaux .
The shooter or shooters moved a priori "
on foot
", he added.
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According to the first investigations, "
the presumed lever of the passage to the act would be drug trafficking
", specified the source close to the file.
“
Besançon has just experienced a new dramatic stage linked to drug trafficking which plagues cities and kills our young people
”, reacted on Twitter on Monday the environmental mayor of Besançon Anne Vignot who participated in a rally against violence in this popular district on Friday. from the west of the city.
“
I call for calm.
We must get out of this spiral of violence
, ”declared to the Est Républicain the prefect of Doubs Jean-François Colombet, fearing reprisals.
On August 14 and 16, two brothers were also shot and wounded in the same neighborhood.
The investigation carried out jointly by the judicial police and the departmental security of Besançon has not yet established a possible link between these two episodes of shooting.
CRS specialists in the fight against urban violence in sensitive neighborhoods arrived Monday evening in Besançon to ensure that calm is maintained.
Between November 2019 and March 2020, the Republican Reconquest District (QRR) of Planoise, which has 20,000 inhabitants, was the scene of violent clashes between two rival gangs who were vying for control of drug trafficking.
This gang war had given rise to 18 episodes of gunfire, resulting in 11 injuries in total on both sides, including minors, and a 23-year-old dead.
The homicide investigation is still ongoing, but a total of 57 people have been indicted for the shooting episodes, seven of whom have already been sentenced to between 3 and 10 years in prison.
Others are to be tried in the fall.