This Monday, around 1:30 p.m., a 17-year-old young man was seriously injured in the Borny district of Metz. The events took place in a parking lot located on Boulevard d’Alsace. Two hooded individuals allegedly shot the teenager before fleeing. Very seriously injured, the victim was transported to the Metz-Thionville CHR by SMUR teams.
“The video images we have were immediately transmitted to the courts,” explained François Grosdidier. For the mayor of Metz, this scene “presents identical signs” to the events which recently took place. On September 23 around 6 p.m., avenue de Thionville in Metz Nord, three young people in their twenties were shot and injured. The next day, shots from heavy weapons were aimed at the facade of a café, still on avenue de Thionville. A week later, on September 29, rue Belchamps in Sablon, a 35-year-old man was also seriously injured by several gunshots. “This looks like settling scores in a context of organized gangs,” comments the mayor of Metz who still notes “the juvenilization of serious delinquency.”
Strengthen video protection
Faced with this increase in violence, the mayor of Metz intends to accelerate the implementation of video protection. “We have 120 municipal police officers who come to support the national police and teams in all sectors. We must quickly strengthen video protection, which constitutes added value to the national police. » François Grosdidier, who has always promised to network the entire Metz territory, specifies that Metz had 150 cameras and that his objective is to install nearly a thousand of them at a rate of 200 per year.
An open investigation
The perpetrators of the shooting are believed to still be at large. Public prosecutor Yves Badorc specified that the investigation had been entrusted to the Metz judicial police service, for attempted murder.
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