One dead in fight between rival gangs in Créteil

A man was killed during a fight on the night of Saturday 20 to Sunday 21 July “against a backdrop of rivalry between districts” in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), reported the city’s prosecutor’s office on Sunday, contacted by AFP. Another person was injured.

The events took place in the Abbaye district of this city in the south-east of Paris, adds the same source. In the evening, “The police received several calls reporting detonations and the presence of around thirty people, hooded and armed, suggesting a dispute between rival gangs from two neighbourhoods.”reports The Parisianwhich cites the police headquarters.

Once there, the police seized “two empty vehicles”A “handgun magazine, a telescopic baton and various objects found on the ground”the prefecture also reports. Eleven people, including four minors, were taken into custody and an investigation was opened for murder and attempted murder by an organized gang, the prosecutor’s office said. It was entrusted to the Val-de-Marne judicial police.