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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

  • A young man was shot dead last August in Lille against a background of drug trafficking.

  • Seven suspects were arrested in early December, including one in Spain.

  • In the same neighborhood, a fifty-year-old had also been shot dead a few days before.

At the end of last August, a young man died of a gunshot wound to the head in the lobby of a building in Lille.

The investigators of the judicial police arrested several suspects this week, including one in Spain, we learned from the prosecutor of the Republic of Lille.

During the night of August 21 to 22, the inhabitants of a building in the rue de la Briqueterie, in the Saint-Maurice district, in Lille, called for help after hearing gunshots.

The body of a young man, seriously injured in the head, lay in the hall of the building.

The victim succumbed to his injuries a few minutes after the arrival of help.

Seven suspects arrested by the judicial police

According to the Lille prosecutor's office, the young man was in his twenties, "lived in Laval and was not known to the police and the courts".

A judicial investigation had been opened and the investigations had been entrusted to the regional direction of the judicial police of Lille.

According to the prosecution, the investigations made it possible to establish that the victim "would have fallen into an ambush against a background of drug trafficking.

On Tuesday, the police finally arrested six men, three of whom will be referred this Friday before the judge in charge of the investigation of the case.

A seventh man, "subject to a European arrest warrant was also arrested in Spain," adds the prosecutor, Carole Etienne.

If all the suspects remain in the Lille metropolis, none resided in the building where the acts were committed, said the prosecution.

A few days before the murder of this young man, it was a man in his fifties who had been the target of shots in this same district of Lille.

He too had succumbed to his injuries.

Suspects had fled in a car and investigators had called for witnesses.

Miscellaneous

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Lille

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  • Murder

  • Assassination

  • Drug traffic

  • Lille