Overview

• A 19-year-old has been formally charged with murder, attempted murder and illegal weapon possession after a 16-year-old was fatally shot in Fleury-les-Aubrais with prosecutors requesting his pretrial detention.
• Officials dispute the suspect’s account of a warning shot, citing four spent casings recovered at the scene and his prior drug convictions as evidence of inconsistent testimony.
• In Toulouse’s Bellefontaine district, the Division of Organized and Specialized Crime is investigating the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old, while a separate Division of Territorial Crime inquiry covers an unrelated throat stabbing of a man in his twenties.
• In Clermont-Ferrand’s Croix-de-Neyrat area, two masked assailants stabbed an adult born in 2005, who remains in critical condition, and a minor born in 2009, and police later discovered 7.65 and .32 caliber shell casings following reports of gunfire.
• Authorities say the recent cluster of violent incidents aligns with a wider surge of narcotics-related “règlements de comptes” that has fueled organised urban violence in provincial French cities since 2024.