The Aubiers district is in shock after the death of a teenager from 13 years in a shootout. (Photo by thibaud MORITZ / MORITZ / AFP) – AFP
Even if the prosecution does not report any new arrests, the investigation continues after the fatal shooting which occurred on Saturday evening in the city of Aubiers in Bordeaux. The custody of five young adults , arrested between Sunday evening and Monday morning, was thus extended on Tuesday by 22 hours.
The five suspects, aged 18 at 21 years, had been taken into police custody for murder and attempted murder in an organized gang, after the gun shooting automatic which had made a death, a teenager of 13 years old, and four wounded, including three young people from at 16 years, in this city north of Bordeaux.
Escalation of tensions between neighborhoods
The extension of s custody was requested on Tuesday by the prosecution, under the derogatory regime which allows such an extension beyond 22 hours, for certain types of serious cases, namely murder and attempted gang murders organized. It was pronounced by the judge of freedoms and detention. The prosecution did not wish to communicate further on the state of the current judicial police investigation.
Towards 22 h 50 Saturday, a group of young people who were in a small square in the heart of Aubiers, a city of more than 3. 500 inhabitants of the north of Bordeaux, had been the target of shooting in bursts with an automatic weapon, from a vehicle passing by. The shooting took place, according to the prosecution and local elected officials, in a context of “escalation of tensions noted between neighborhoods for several weeks”. The Aubiers district has sporadically been associated with brawls, or rivalries, with two other districts in the north of Bordeaux.