A 23-year-old man died in the night from Sunday to Monday, shot during a shooting against a background of drug trafficking, in the center of Perpignan.

The track of settling accounts is favored by the investigators.

At around 3 a.m., a group of several people was the target of gunfire from a car that fled, Place Joseph-Cassanyes.

Four people were injured, including a 23-year-old man, who died of his injuries in hospital.

He was known to the police for drug trafficking.

Another man was seriously injured.

The market, which is held daily on this square, has been canceled, according to the town hall of Perpignan.

The Perpignan judicial police were seized of the investigation and cordoned off the area.

Rival gangs fighting over deal points

According to a source close to the investigation, this is a settling of scores between rival gangs, who are fighting over drug trafficking points in this city of 120,000 inhabitants.

That night in #Perpignan drug gangrene left one dead and three injured.

From the start I asked for this trafficking to be eradicated and for us to benefit from additional police personnel to win this war.

But nothing !

@GDarmanin prefers the Com.

- Louis Aliot (@louis_aliot) August 9, 2021

“That night in Perpignan drug gangrene left one dead and three injured.

From the start, I asked for this trafficking to be eradicated and for us to benefit from additional police personnel to win this war.

But nothing !

[The Minister of the Interior] Gérard Darmanin prefers the Com ”, tweeted the RN mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot.

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