Le Figaro Nice
It's been a while since the bosses of the sensitive Moulins district in Nice last played the caliber in the middle of the street and in broad daylight.
The last time was November 28, 2023, and it was nighttime.
A bullet was found in the living room of an apartment located on the fifth floor of a building.
Since that evening, the atmosphere seemed to have calmed down somewhat.
The fruit undoubtedly of the war waged by the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes Hugues Moutouh against the city's drug traffickers.
Drug dealers to whom, at the end of last year, we owed a shooting every week, sometimes two in 48 hours.
Following the “action-reaction” principle, major resources were immediately deployed on site, between Raid intervention, deployment of the CRS 8 and strike operations.
The message then could not have been clearer: force must remain within the law.
On January 8, armed dealers did not even have time to make the Kalashnikov he was dragging on them speak.
In no time, they were captured by police officers from the Specialized Field Brigade (BST) mobilized as part of an anti-narcotics operation.
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Exported violence
Little by little, the violence was exported to the other side of the city, notably in the equally sensitive Ariane district, which we had no longer heard about since attention was focused exclusively on the Moulins district. .
On January 21, during an amateur football match, around thirty hooded individuals armed with baseball bats, knives and tasers landed on the pitch to settle scores with some players from a local team.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, February 5, still at Ariane, a man in his forties was beaten up in a “snack bar” by five individuals.
Beaten with bats and gun butts, the man was taken into care with a life-threatening condition.
Meanwhile, dead calm in Les Moulins.
A break which ended Monday afternoon, around 4:30 p.m., at number 37 boulevard Paul Montel.
In other words, a stone's throw from the very prolific deal point known as "the laundry", officially dismantled at the end of last year by the Nice judicial police, but which unofficially is running at full speed.
It was a witness who informed the police.
The latter saw a man, dressed all in black, appear near the deal point and open fire in the air several times, before fleeing.
When the police arrived on scene, the shooter was already far away.
However, the police found several 9 millimeter caliber shell casings, confirming the scene described by the witness.
No injuries were reported.
“It’s a way to puff out your chest, to mark your territory
,” analyzes a Nice police officer.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to Departmental Security.