A 21-year-old man was shot dead in an association hall in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme) on Saturday evening, AFP learned this Sunday from a police source.
Around 10 p.m., a hooded man burst into an MJC in this city bordering Valencia, in the north, where a few people were watching a football World Cup match.
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The author shot his victim several times, before fleeing on a scooter driven by an accomplice, according to the first elements of the investigation.
The victim was known to the police for drug trafficking, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The judicial police have been seized.
At the end of November, the LR mayor of Valence, Nicolas Daragon, had on BFM TV asked for "
additional mobile forces which move in our neighborhoods
", ten days after a teenager had been surprised in the middle of the night by a Kalashnikov bullet that came lodge in the wall of his room.
"
Shots, stray bullets, it's extremely regular and it's unacceptable
," lamented the elected official, "
very worried
".
