A shooting left at least 5 injured, including three seriously, on Saturday in Villerupt, in Meurthe-et-Moselle and in a neighboring town in Moselle, not far from the Luxembourg border. The mother of a seriously injured young man testifies at the microphone of BFMTV.
“Cocaine and all that written on the walls… Let them take it all down! Let them paint!” Cindy does not hide her anger after the shooting which injured five people, three of whom seriously on Saturday evening near a known drug trafficking point in Villerupt (Meurthe-et-Moselle). On the walls of the district are displayed the prices of narcotics.
His son Kenzo, only 17, is the youngest victim of the shooting. Cindy recalls that he had nothing to do with drug trafficking, and that he was simply near a porch of the bar of buildings with some friends.
The alleged perpetrator arrested Monday morning
“It is justice at fault, which does not do its duty”, laments the mother of the young man at the microphone of BFMTV. “When a man kills someone, he should go to jail, and he should stay in jail.”
The alleged perpetrator, a hooded man, was arrested on Monday morning. “It has to stop!” Implores the victim’s mother again, who explains that she asked young people in the neighborhood not to go to this place, considered “dangerous”… “If you don’t not for me, do it for Kenzo,” she allegedly told them after the fact.
The mother confides that she told this group of young people that there was “still time to change, to stop (their) bullshit” and to take the bus to go to Luxembourg to go to work to make (their) parents proud as Kenzo (him) made him proud”.
“He’s a good kid”
“He’s a good kid, appreciated by everyone in Villerupt,” adds Cindy, in tears.
The injured are four men and a woman: a 19-year-old Portuguese, a 20-year-old Frenchman injured in the chest or a 30-year-old Algerian, as well as Kenzo. The shooting, which occurred on “a deal point”, is probably linked to drug trafficking according to local elected officials, in this city near the Luxembourg and Belgian borders.
“Unfortunately, we expected it,” reacted the mayor of Villerupt Pierrick Spizak on BFMTV. The minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin announced, during a trip to Yvelines on May 10, the deployment of 500 additional police officers in medium-sized towns from next September.
