Seine-Saint-Denis: a brawl leaves one dead and two injured in a shisha bar in Blanc-Mesnil

A dead man with a hole in his head, another alive but with a bullet in the buttocks and a third in bad shape but who should also get away with it. What happened on the night of Saturday to Sunday in a shisha bar in Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis)?

This will be the subject of the investigation entrusted to the SDPJ 93 (sub-directorate of the judicial police) for intentional homicide, attempted murder and intentional violence, the prosecutor of Bobigny Éric Mathais told us this Sunday evening.

A bullet behind the head

It is 7:15 a.m. when a patrol from Blanc-Mesnil quietly checks a Mercedes on avenue du 8-Mai-1945. Two pedestrians rush towards them. Someone got shot, they tell the officials. He is lying on the ground, a little further into the city. The police forget the car and sprint with the two men.

At the end of an alley, a body lies on the ground. Lying on her back, her jacket half removed, the victim has a trickle of blood flowing from the back of her skull. She took a bullet. The police take his pulse. Nothing. The officials immediately tried cardiac massage. In vain. The death of this man, apparently a resident of Sevran, will be declared at 7:50 am.

In the bar, water all over the floor and broken glass

While waiting, the same police officers hear noise behind a nearby door. It would be a night establishment. An official opens. He comes across a second man, who seems in a trance. He has blood on his hands and does not answer, at first, the questions put to him. In fact, he is injured. He too took a bullet, but in the buttocks.

Reinforcements of law enforcement arrive on site. Weapon in hand and flashlight on, the police begin a progression in the establishment. Everything is black. On the ground, there is water and broken glass. It seems to be a shisha bar.

At the back of a large room, on a bench, the officials first see a foot. They get closer and discover the third victim. His body is covered in blood and his face swollen. He was not shot and injured. He was apparently beaten up. He lets out moans. The firefighters arrive in turn and take care of him.

“A very alcoholic festive context”, according to a judicial source

Difficult at first to know what happened. The man injured in the buttock does not speak. He would be 30 years old. The one found on the bench is hardly more talkative. Also 30 years old, living in the city, he would have confided that a fight had broken out in the shisha bar. A fight that degenerated, he explains. Is it the manager, as one source suggests? Too early to say.

The two surviving victims were hospitalized. “It happened in a very alcoholic festive context, slips a judicial source. Everything is still very vague. »