For the moment, no link has been made between the two cases.
A young man died Friday morning, stabbed in the near suburbs of Dijon, we learned from the prosecution.
He was stabbed in Talant (Côte d'Or) shortly before 8:00 a.m., was 19 years old and originally from the sensitive Dijon district of Fontaine d'Ouche, the public prosecutor in Dijon, Olivier Caracotch, told AFP.
“No link at this stage with another case” has been made, said the prosecutor.
Because in this same neighborhood of Fontaine d'Ouche, where several deal points are known, a 17-year-old minor was shot and injured on Wednesday.
The young man was hit while he was with another 20-year-old by bursts of gunfire from a car.
The option of settling scores is being considered.
The two young men targeted have already been convicted of drug trafficking.
“A
Marseillesization
of Dijon”
This attack on Wednesday, which occurred in broad daylight in a busy neighborhood, led to the arrival of around thirty police officers from CRS 83, specializing in urban violence, that same evening.
According to the prefecture, this detachment aims to “secure the neighborhood and strengthen the fight against drug trafficking”.
The two investigations were entrusted to the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police (DIPN) of Dijon.
#security Prefect Franck Robine is in the Fontaine d'Ouche district in #Dijon to greet the 30 police officers from CRS 83 (Lyon) and the 20 police officers from Dipn21 @PoliceNat_21 on a mission to secure the neighborhood and fight against drug trafficking.
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— Prefect Burgundy-Franche-Comté, Prefect Côte-d’Or (@Prefet21_BFC) March 14, 2024
Dijon has been the scene, for several months, of firearm attacks linked to drug trafficking.
The most dramatic caused, at the end of November, the death of a father, the victim of a stray bullet while he was sleeping in his apartment located just above a deal point in the Stalingrad district.
“We are arriving at a
marseillization
of Dijon,” denounces Cédric Bovrisse, secretary of the police union Alliance for the Côte d’Or.
“We have heard about teams coming from Paris or Marseille, where young people cannot settle and therefore come to the provinces.
It happens in Dijon because it’s easier to settle here than in the northern districts of Marseille,” he explains to AFP.