Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: Fiora Garenzi / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 6:44 p.m., March 15, 2024
A 19-year-old young man, from the sensitive neighborhood of Fontaine d'Ouche in Dijon, was stabbed to death this Friday, according to the prosecution.
Four people, including three minors, were taken into police custody.
This case would have no connection with a firearm attack which injured a person in the same neighborhood.
Four people, including three minors, were taken into police custody after the death Friday morning of a young man, stabbed in the Dijon area, we learned from the prosecution.
The young man, who received an unspecified number of stab wounds, was 19 years old and originally from the sensitive Dijon district of Fontaine d'Ouche, Olivier Caracotch, public prosecutor in Dijon, told AFP.
The victim is unknown to the police and justice services, he said, adding that four people had been taken into custody.
“We are arriving at a ‘marseillization’ of Dijon”
“No link at this stage with another case” is made, declared the prosecutor, questioned about a possible relationship with a firearm attack which occurred on Wednesday in the same district of Fontaine d’Ouche, where several points deals are known.
During this attack, a 17-year-old minor was shot and injured.
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.
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This 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, 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 hear about teams coming from Paris or Marseille, where young people cannot settle and therefore come to the provinces. It happens in Dijon, because it is easier to settle here than in the neighborhoods. North of Marseille,” he explains to AFP.