A man in his twenties was shot dead as part of a possible settling of scores this Sunday, in Talant, on the outskirts of Dijon (Côte d'Or), indicates a police source to Le Parisien, confirming a information from the Public Good and the AFP.
The events allegedly took place shortly after 9 p.m. in an area “known to be the scene of drug trafficking”.
Shots reportedly came from a vehicle “with several individuals on board”, fatally injuring the victim, a police source told AFP.
A second source added that the young man was part of a group of young people installed “in front of a building lobby” before the shots rang out and the occupants of the car fled.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police, according to the same source.
Serial attacks in the Dijon area
Friday morning, a 19-year-old man from the sensitive Dijon district of Fontaine d'Ouche was stabbed to death in the Dijon metropolitan area.
Four people, an adult and three minors, were taken into police custody following the attack.
In the same neighborhood of Fontaine d'Ouche, where several deal points are known, a gun attack injured a 17-year-old minor this Wednesday.
The young man was hit while he was with another 20-year-old, by bursts of gunfire from a car, the possibility of settling scores being considered.
The two young men targeted have already been convicted of drug trafficking.
No link was established between this case and that of Friday, said the public prosecutor of Dijon Olivier Caracotch.
A “Marseillization” of the city
Wednesday's attack, perpetrated 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.
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, 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.