2023-05-13 21:51:31
Five people were injured by bullets, three of them seriously, on Saturday May 13, in Villerupt (Meurthe-et-Moselle), a small town near the Luxembourg border haunted by drug trafficking, by a shooter who has been identified.
In the early evening, the hooded man opened fire in this town before fleeing in a vehicle. “There are five victims, four men and one woman. Three people are seriously affected, with two vital prognoses involved. Among the injured, there is a minor, and the oldest is in his thirties.declared to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the prosecutor of the Republic of Val-de-Briey, Catherine Galen.
“There is an identified shooter, who fired numerous shots on the spot, many casings were found”she added, without specifying the nature of the firearm used, “being identified”.
A security perimeter was erected at the foot of a six-storey building. On the ground, some traces of blood are visible, while the scientific police were still taking evidence at the end of the evening. Cans or even a camping chair were thus recovered, noted an AFP journalist.
Emotion
A flagrant investigation was opened, entrusted to the DTPJ of Metz (Territorial Directorate of the Judicial Police, formerly DRPJ). The Val-de-Briey public prosecutor’s office, not competent for this type of facts, should relinquish the investigation in favor of the Nancy public prosecutor’s office.
“There was only one shooting scene, there is nothing in Audun-le-Tiche”she testified, while some local authorities had previously announced that shootings had also taken place in this neighboring town, on the other side of the department limit, in Moselle.
Asked, the elected officials of Villerupt expressed their emotion, while ensuring that they had long demanded additional police resources to deal with the traffic of all kinds which gnaws at this town of 10,000 inhabitants located less than 10 kilometers from the Luxembourg border, and about twenty kilometers from Belgium.
“I am shocked, this is not what we want to see in our commune. I’m thinking of the families, I hope that tomorrow they won’t have to bury their children.”, said the mayor of the city, Pierre Spizak. According to him, the shootings took place “at the place of a deal point”and suggest “a settlement of accounts”.
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“I’m not saying that the injured are traffickers, maybe it was just friends talking. But we have been alerting to the situation for some time, we are helpless, and today we find ourselves with three seriously injured.he regretted. “There are petty traffickers, bigger traffickers, slum traders, prostitution… These are issues linked in particular to borders, it’s easy to go from one side to the other, and we have little of police officers. They are doing what they can with the means they have, but the state is abandoning us”he lamented.
Darmanin visiting in March 2021
The elected official spontaneously mentioned the visit to the town in March 2021 by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. “Since then, the situation has worsened regarding the police station”judge Pierre Spizak. “We have 79 agents excluding administrative staff, whereas two years ago the Ministry of the Interior was to increase the number of staff to 104, which makes a differential of 25 agents”he counted, fearing that the next major sporting events organized in France (Rugby World Cup, Olympic Games) would reduce the local national police force.
According to Pierre Spizak, the ministerial visit made it possible to keep the commune’s police station open. “But sometimes there is only one person inside”he pointed out. “We currently have between 11,000 and 12,000 complaints that are not processed, for lack of resources. What can we do ? A new ministerial visit? ».
The mayor nevertheless praised the work carried out locally by police officers, as well as by street mediators. “But what happened today, unfortunately, is something we warned about two or three weeks ago”he concluded. “We said ‘be careful, it’s going up, we could have dead people’. It’s dramatic “.
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