Friday evening, the firefighters were called to Carénage, an underprivileged district of Pointe-à-Pitre, where a man in his “thirties was found with his body riddled with bullets”, said the public prosecutor of Pointe -in Pitre.
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Potentially related cases. Two investigations were opened after violence in Pointe-à-Pitre, where a man was killed by a firearm on Friday February 18 and another injured on Saturday, the public prosecutor of Pointe-à announced to AFP. -Pitre, Patrick Desjardins.
Friday evening, the firefighters were called to Carénage, a disadvantaged district of Pointe-à-Pitre, where a man of “thirties was found the body riddled with bullets”said the prosecutor. “We are talking about 7 shots”, he also said. The man “has not been formally identified, but it seems that he is of Dominican origin”, said Patrick Desjardins. The track of the settlement of accounts is privileged.
Saturday afternoon, shots injured an individual in the same city, continued the prosecutor, confirming information from local media. “Two men on a scooter shot a third who was walking down the street”, he described. The injured was taken care of by the emergency services and his vital prognosis is not engaged. “It is not to be excluded” that the two cases are linked, commented the prosecutor. In both cases, the investigation was entrusted to the Territorial Service of the Judicial Police (STPJ).