Drug war in France – ricochet kills father in his sleep

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Drug war in France – Machine gun ricochet kills family father in his sleep

A police car in Marseille. In major cities in France There has been an increasing number of violent settlements in the drug world recently.

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France is suffering from escalating drug crime: In Dijon, a bystander was shot dead by a ricochet when gunmen fired at a residential building.

In France Unknown people in the city of Dijon shelled a residential building near a drug transshipment point and killed a 55-year-old father. As several French media reported with reference to the investigators, the apparently bystander was hit by a ricochet in his second floor apartment on Sunday night. According to the current status of the investigation, the man was not the target of the two fleeing attackers, the France Info broadcaster reported. The newspaper “Le Parisien” writes that they fired at the building with submachine guns.

According to reports, investigators collected around 60 bullet casings from the building. The nightly shots in the eastern French metropolis broke through several windows without injuring anyone else. Referring to the victim’s adult daughter, Le Parisien reported that the 55-year-old was killed in his sleep. The public prosecutor wanted in in the afternoon Dijon inform about the status of the investigation.

Similar cases in the south of France

Also in southern France Marseilles and in other large cities there has recently been an increase in violent settlements in the drug community. Young attackers often shoot around with Kalashnikovs and also hit bystanders.

In Marseille, a student was fatally shot in her room when criminals blindly fired an assault rifle at a facade. In Nîmes, a ten-year-old boy died after being shot in the back seat of his uncle’s car, who was completely uninvolved in the drug trade.

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