Settling of accounts in narco-banditry. A 43-year-old man was indicted on March 20 in Lille (North) for “assassination” and “criminal association” before being placed in pre-trial detention learned News17confirming information from The voice of the North. This drug trafficker and suspected of having, in February 2023, shot and killed Reski Demdoum, 42, in a street in Tourcoing.
It is 7:20 a.m. on February 9, in front of 17 rue Nationale, when the police and the emergency services are called to come to the aid of an injured person. The unconscious 40-year-old lies on the road after being shot with a single bullet fired into the back of the skull. He is taken care of by the SAMU and taken to Lille hospital where he dies in the middle of the morning. The first findings allow to find two 9 mm caliber cases and a warhead in the frame of the door of the victim’s home.
On the run abroad
His wife was in the house. In a state of shock, she says she is unable to give the slightest clue to the investigators of the Lille criminal brigade. She describes her husband as a discreet and uneventful man. Reski is also unknown to the police. But several testimonies in the entourage of the forties reveal that he was in conflict over a debt with a family in the town known to be drug traffickers. “The autopsy confirms that the death was caused by this single bullet fired in the back of the head, it is an execution”notes a source close to the case.
Officials collect CCTV footage from the street. They make it possible to see the killer with the concealed face who flees on foot in the direction of a metro station. The officials discover that two brothers, suspected of having implemented this assassination, fled to Tunisia and Spain.
A large and old debt
On March 17, the car of one of these men was spotted entering France from the Iberian Peninsula. The research and intervention brigades (BRI) of Lyon (Rhône) and Dijon (Côte-d’Or) follow the vehicle in which the criminal is with his wife and two children.
At 9:45 p.m., the suspect was arrested on the A36 before being taken into custody at the premises of the Besançon judicial police. During his interrogation, Fouyed confessed, describing the course of the crime in detail. The criminal explains that he had acted to take revenge for an important and old debt, which would not have been honored by the victim. His wife, also heard, confirms the story of her husband who would have told her everything shortly after committing the irreparable. The alleged killer has been imprisoned. Investigations are continuing to arrest his accomplices in what looks like a conflict on the background of laundering drug trafficking.
