Two men shot dead, suspects on the run

Two men were shot dead this Sunday in Sevran, we learned from police sources. A tragedy which comes less than 48 hours after a shooting linked to drug trafficking which left one dead and several seriously injured in this town of Seine-Saint-Denis. The two men were killed around 6 p.m. The suspect(s) fled, according to one of these sources

Aged 33 and 35, the two men killed were known for violence and drug trafficking, said a second police source. Many police officers were present at the scene on Sunday evening, noted a journalist. Two mobile force units were sent to the site, said a police source.

Settling scores

During the night from Friday to Saturday, a 28-year-old man had already been killed and four others injured during a shooting in the Cité des Beaudottes, an emblematic district of this poor town in the northern suburbs of Paris. Three other gunshot wounds also showed up at the hospital later that night. “It’s necessarily a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking,” reacted Stéphane Blanchet, DVG mayor of the city. On site, 25 7.62 cartridge cases, a caliber used in particular for Kalashnikov-type weapons, were found.

After Marseille, Sevran was the subject of an anti-drug operation “place net XXL” on March 25 with the aim of stopping trafficking. In this city, the Rougemont city deal point had been “eradicated”, the police headquarters said on Saturday.

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