Toulouse: a death in a settling of accounts with the Kalashnikov – Le Parisien

Toulouse: a death in a settling of accounts with the Kalashnikov – Le Parisien

<- Hard dé e: 0.025076866149902 sec -> This is the third murder in the surrounding areas of Beauzelles the Izards, on the outskirts of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). A man was found dead, riddled with bullets from an assault rifle on the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the town of 5,000 people located about ten kilometers north of Toulouse.
                  <- hard dé e: 0.014416933059692 sec -> The victim, Walid Larbi-Bey was a Toulousain recently jailed 29 years for attempted murder.

A reckoning with a weapon of war

According to information from France 3 Midi-Pyrenees, he was shot several times. According to investigators, a dozen sockets weapon of war, which could be a Kalashnikov were found in the body of the victim.

“Around 2 am, a man who was returning by car in the parking lot of his residence was shot multiple shots fired by two weapons a weapon of war and a shotgun “said the prosecutor of Toulouse, Michel Valet, during a press conference at the courthouse.

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motorcycle on fire after the murder

The victim arrived aboard a BMW 3 series The assassination took place just after. Companion Walid Larbi-Bey, who heard the shooting, said he saw “two men fleeing on foot,” according to the prosecutor. Twenty minutes later, a motorcycle was set on fire at 6-7 miles away, according to the magistrate. A bike that could have served as the murderers in their flight.

The fear of reprisals

But investigators are primarily linked with the Toulouse district izards where the victim resided until recently and theater as “a series of criminal attacks” since Dec. 4. “We have serious reasons to consider connections between these different facts,” said the attorney Jack, who fears “acts in return.”

Walid Larbi-Bey, born in Algeria in 1984, known to police for several burglaries and robberies, was mostly “suspected of being involved as a perpetrator in an attempted murder by an organized gang” committed December 5, said the prosecutor. A cyclist – pizza establishment “The Milano”, according to police – was then intentionally struck by a vehicle then referred shot. A few days later, Walid Larbi-Bey was charged and remanded in custody before being released in May, under judicial control.

A traffic hub drug

Izards are often described as a hub of drug trafficking in the city and part of the Safety Zone priority northeast founded in late 2012 in Toulouse. In 2013, two murders have rocked the neighborhood.

On 8 December, a 18 year old boy had succumbed to his injuries after several rounds from an assault rifle had been fired at a group in a hall building. Then, on Jan. 21, a 25 year old man was shot in the pizzeria “The Milano” where men had emerged to take a couple of shots on a road north of Toulouse. The pizzeria was at the heart of investigations into shootings in December, amid “settling of accounts between rival gangs,” said one expert dossier.

After the assassination of Walid Larbi Bey Thursday, the Regional Criminal Investigation Department (SRPJ) was again in charge of the investigation.

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