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Recent Exchanges of Fire in Nîmes’ Pissevin District: Two Injured in Drug Trafficking War

New exchanges of fire took place this Sunday, September 10 in Nîmes in the Pissevin district, bruised by recent settling of scores. Two people were injured.

According to our information, Kalashnikov shots rang out in a ZUP south parking lot near Kennedy, avenue des arts in Nîmes this Sunday, September 10 in the morning. Two individuals aged 28 and 32 were injured around 7:45 a.m. and 17 shell casings were found in a parking lot not far from where young Fayed, 10, was killed by a stray bullet.

Photo taken on site this Sunday September 10. Free Midday

Neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking war

The authors’ car, a gray Peugeot 307, was found abandoned on fire between Montagnac and Saint-Beauzély on the departmental road towards Calmette. A Kalashnikov was reportedly found inside.

This district is, let us remember, in the middle of a war between drug traffickers for control of the sale of narcotics.

Thursday August 24, a young man aged 18 was shot and killed in this neighborhood, just two days after the death of little Fayed. Consecutive tragedies which motivated the trip of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on August 25, who had announced the deployment of the Raid and the CRS-8 in the sensitive district. From now on, a mobile gendarmerie unit has been deployed in the neighborhood.

Note that Tango buses will not run this Sunday in the neighborhood, professionals having exercised their right of withdrawal.

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