A few tens of minutes, the exit of classes on this Monday of the start of the school year could have taken another turn, in Fameck. At around 4:40 p.m., while the students of Jacques-Prévert school, rue Saint-Exupéry, had recently left the premises, exchanges of gunfire occurred in this artery where several schools are located.
A bullet lodged in the double-glazed window on the first floor of the school, where several teachers were still standing, alerted by the noise. They immediately sounded the alarm. There were no injuries and the bullet did not pass through the glass which cracked on impact.
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Affected vehicles
Witnesses heard gunshots, an impression confirmed by the discovery of at least two vehicles parked nearby, hit by gunfire. Cartridges were found on the ground.
Teams from the Thionville research brigade, to which the investigation was entrusted, criminal identification technicians, Fameck gendarmes, firefighters and elected officials went to the site. Samples were taken on site and the bullet was sent to a Parisian forensic analysis laboratory. “A search mechanism has been set up to find the perpetrators of the exchanges of gunfire who are on the run,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Guillaume Chanudet, of the Thionville company. The perimeter of the incident has been secured.
The mayor of Fameck, Michel Liebgott, alerted and present on site alongside his deputy for Security Alessandro Bernardi, deplored “acts of irresponsible delinquency”. “We want to prevent children from seeing the bullet impact, the window will be changed as soon as possible. “
Investigators are already studying the video surveillance images to try to reconstruct the scenario of this agitated late afternoon. Reinforcements of mobile gendarmes will be deployed for several days in the town and in particular in the area of rue Saint-Exupéry, which has already been the scene of heavy brawls a few months earlier.
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