A vast police operation was underway this Monday morning in the sensitive district of Planoise in Besançon (Doubs) as part of an investigation into the shootings linked to drug trafficking which have shaken him for months, we learned from police source.
This operation has about twenty targets, said this source. According to L'Est Républicain, nearly 200 police officers were mobilized by this operation, including attack columns from the Raid.
A first phone call in early March in the neighborhood had led to the indictment of fifteen people suspected of being involved in these armed settling of accounts. A mother and seven men aged 18 to 25 were then placed in pre-trial detention and seven other persons under judicial supervision.
A "clan war"
The fifteen suspects had been indicted for "attempted assassination, association of criminals, drug trafficking and failure to justify resources".
A district known as the Republican reconquest of 18,000 inhabitants, Planoise is in the grip of "a war of clans between two teams fighting over a territory for the resale of narcotic products", explained the prosecutor, Étienne Manteaux.
Between November 2019 and March 2020, life in the neighborhood was punctuated by a series of assassination attempts and the assassination by bullets of a 23-year-old young man.
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During the March operation, three individuals of Parisian origin were found with a handgun and 9 millimeter ammunition, comparable to those used to assassinate this young man.
