A 10-year-old boy in France was the victim of a war between drug cartels. The little boy was killed in a shootout last night in the popular Pissevin neighborhood of the city of Nimes, where the conflict between drug trafficking cartels in the south of the country continues. Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, on X (formerly Twitter) “Nimes: A 10-year-old boy was killed in what appeared to be a showdown between drug dealers. This is a great tragedy that will not go unpunished.” Members of CRS 8, a police unit specializing in the management of urban violence currently based in Marseille.
Nimes Prosecutor Cécile Gensac said that one person was shot with the child, but it was not life-threatening. Police sources and people close to the investigation told AFP that the boy was behind a targeted vehicle around 11:30 PM. The injured driver was his 28-year-old uncle. Luckily, a 7-year-old boy sitting in the back seat of the car escaped injury. According to the statement given by the victim’s uncle to the investigators, the victim, who thought that his 10-year-old nephew got out of the car when the fire was shot, instead the small child hit by the bullet was stuck in the seat belt outside the vehicle. and then drifted along the road for about two kilometers. There would be four gunmen and no arrests yet.
A 14-year-old teenager was shot and wounded nearby by gunmen in a Renault Clio on Sunday. Investigators believe the killers may have confused the uncle’s Mégane, who was taking the two children home, with the Clio used in the attack the previous day, and targeted him as a form of revenge. “This latest tragedy has shocked, saddened and angered me deeply,” said Jean-Paul Fournier, mayor of Nimes, in a press release.
The Pissevin neighborhood is the same neighborhood where a 39-year-old man was killed in a shootout with drug trafficking in January. About fifteen showdowns resulted in the deaths of three people in the city, including eight in 2020 and a 17-year-old in 2021, according to data from Eric Maurel, Nimes’ former prosecutor. Most of these murders were committed in Pissevin, Chemin Bas, and Mas de Mingue, three areas in condos and condominium slums. These three neighborhoods were created in the 1960s to house people who fled the countryside, repatriated from North Africa, and then migrant workers. All three share worrying socio-economic indicators. In Pissevin, 70% of the 13,000 people live below the poverty line and the unemployment rate is 46%.
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