settling of accounts or racist attack?

Particularly serious events took place in Saint-Jacques district, south of Beaune, on the night of Sunday to Monday. Seven young people were injured – including one seriously – by the shotgun fire of the unidentified pbadenger of a car, according to information collected Monday by AFP from the prosecutor's office in Dijon. What happened ? Who is the author of the shots? Who drove the car? Why were these young people targeted? How are they ? Where is the survey? "The Obs" takes stock

# What Happened?

The facts took place in two stages. "The investigation will determine if a relationship really exists between the two cases," told the "Public Good" deputy prosecutor Dijon, Thierry Bas.

• Around 1:30 in the morning

Near the city-stadium , about fifteen young people discuss and play at the console when a red Renault Clio arrives at a brisk pace from the playground, rue Marie Noël, reports France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The driver tried to hit them. "They managed to avoid it," confirmed Dijon Deputy Prosecutor Thierry Bas on Monday.

"Fortunately there is the bench that saved me." Honestly, without this bench- I thought it was over for me, the car, I saw in their eyes that they hated us, "said one of them to France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. 19659007] The same young man also denounces, with the chain, the racist remarks:

" The worst thing was the words . Like what we were bougnoules and that we had nothing to do in this country and they would return calibrated. "

Still according to France 3, three young slightly wounded" go to the emergency room convinced that it is a isolated act perhaps due to alcohol. "

• Around 4:30 am

Later that night, around 4:30 this time, another car stopped at the group level.

" The pbadenger pulls qua firing with a small caliber rifle, "says the chain.

" Shortly before 4:30 am on Monday, in the Saint-Jacques district, the front pbadenger of a car opened fire with a rifle. hunt for a group of young men, "Dijon deputy prosecutor Thierry Bas said on Monday, confirming information from the regional daily" Le Bien Public "

" Seven of them, aged between 16 and 20 years, were wounded, one of them seriously, but his vital prognosis is not engaged. "

The most seriously injured was transported to Dijon University Hospital, the other six to Beaune .

A relative of the victims who was on the spot, quoted by "Le Bien Public" on Tuesday, also disputes any settling of accounts and claims to have heard racist insults:

This is not a settling of accounts. They are racists. They arrived shouting 'dirty bougnouls, go home.' "

Catherine, a neighbor, quickly helped the victims, as she explained, to France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté still:

"I went downstairs because I heard crying, 'call firefighters', 'call firefighters', and indeed there were wounded."

# Bullets fired a month ago in another neighborhood

Do these acts have anything to do with previous shots elsewhere in the city?

"It will also be necessary to check whether a match can be made with bullets fired about a month ago, in the district of Blanches-Fleurs, another district of Beaune ", also indicated the badistant public prosecutor of Dijon to the" Public good ".

The daily also specifies that several residents of the district of Blanches-Fleurs heard detonations, on the night of Sunday 24 to Monday, June 25. A young man of 22 years old was wounded in the leg by a shot fired "by a group of Chalonnais", according to the statements of the then Deputy Prosecutor of Dijon.

# Where is the investigation?

The investigation was entrusted to the police station of Beaune and to the judicial police of Dijon.

According to France 3, the young people badure not to know the aggressors, exclude the track of a regulation of accounts and talk about a racist act.

"It's racist. They were looking for the fight simply. They said they would come back with a rifle. There they came back and then they shot. Nobody expected, "also testified another inhabitant in France 3.

According to AFP, the track of the settling of accounts was privileged, Monday, by the investigators But" no track is to exclude According to the Deputy Prosecutor of Dijon, questioned on this point by "The Public Good" he replied:

"For the moment, settling accounts or racist insults, we do not know anything about it. The investigation will be responsible for determining the causes of the attacks. "

The two cars are still searched by the police.Video surveillance images will allow them to find them quickly? Investigators will view them and hear the various witnesses and wounded added Dijon's deputy prosecutor, according to which, he declared to the "public property", "at least one of the vehicles is registered in the department of Saône-et-Loire".

France 3 Burgundy-Franche-Comté, still, the mayor of Beaune Alain Suguenot envisages the installation of a curfew for the minors in the districts Saint-Jacques and Blanches-Fleurs

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