A man in his fifties was "
killed by a bullet in the head
" on Friday evening January 6 as he left a bar in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), a AFP learned on Saturday from the Bobigny public prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Actu 17 site. The facts took place around 6:00 p.m. in the city center of this town located north of Paris, at the corner of rue Marceau and Duclos, said the prosecution.
The victim was leaving a tobacconist's bar when she was fatally shot by a gunshot.
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, she died on the spot, reported this source.
No arrests have been made at this stage, according to the prosecution.
Hypothesis of a settlement of accounts
The investigation opened for “
assassination
” was entrusted to the criminal brigade.
The hypothesis of a settlement of accounts is considered with regard to the
modus operandi
of this execution, according to a source familiar with the matter.
According to this same source, confirming information from Le
Parisien
, the victim responds to the name of Abderrazak Dahmani.
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Known to justice, he had notably been sentenced, with two other accomplices, by the Assize Court of Val-d'Oise in 2012 for the kidnapping and sequestration for nine days of the boss of a construction company in Garges. -lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise).
His captors, disguised as fake police, had demanded a ransom of 350,000 euros against his release.
The commando had been sentenced to eight to thirteen years in prison.