Overview
- In Avignon, prosecutors opened an organized-crime homicide case after a 17-year-old was shot dead in Monclar late Monday.
- Witnesses described two masked gunmen fleeing on foot from a building hallway, and an autopsy is planned to confirm the exact cause of death.
- In Toulouse, a 22-year-old linked by prosecutors to a nearby dealing point was killed Saturday night by handgun fire in the Izards neighborhood.
- A 29-year-old with prior drug cases was arrested in Roques hours after the Toulouse killing and is held on suspicion of criminal conspiracy to commit murder in an organized gang, with the weapon still missing.
- Police describe cyclical flare-ups as rival groups fight for control of street drug sales, and organized-crime units are conducting forensics and interviews in both cases.