A young man of “about twenty years” was shot in the night of Sunday to Monday in the Abymes, in Guadeloupewe learned on Monday from the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecution, confirming the information of RCI Guadeloupe. It is the fourth homicide, the third ball of which, in less than a week in the archipelago.
The victim, whose identification was “still underway” on Monday afternoon, was killed in the Grand Camp district, Caroline Calbo told AFP, procure of the Pointe-à-Pitre Republic. “The DTPN criminal brigade has been seized,” she said.
No link between the various murders “for the moment”
“For the moment, there is no connection between the various murders” occurred during the week, said Caroline Calbo, listing the victims of the past few days. On Saturday morning, a 45-year-old man was discovered “in Grand-Baie (…) very seriously injured in his car”. He presented “several impacts of bullets” and succumbed to his injuries despite the intervention of the SAMU, according to the prosecutor. The victim was “an administrative agent of the SDIS”. Again, the criminal brigade was seized “for murder”.
Just like for the homicide on Monday evening, in large camp: a young man “who was going to be 17 years old” died “in his neighborhood, shot dead”. No suspect has been arrested for the time being.
Tuesday afternoon, in the Abymes, “a stepfather was arrested, suspected of having killed his 45-year-old steps (Editor’s note, the son of his partner) with mass in the head,” said the magistrate.
26 deadlines since the start of the year
The drama, which occurred at the family home, would have started from an “altercation between the two men”, according to the same source. DTPN was seized once again. The suspect was indicted and imprisoned after his police custody.
In Guadeloupe and the northern islands, in total, “26 people have died, including 15 by ball” since the start of the year. “Six are the spring of Basse-Terre”, some deaths occurred in Saint-Martin- and “20 of the (Court) of Pointe-à-Pitre”, according to the same source.
Caroline Calbo denounces “a very uninhibited use of firearms which generates as many victims as suffering among families”. She “calls families, mothers, fathers, to be vigilant about the weapons that their children could have and to bring them to the police and gendarmerie, to bring them out of traffic and avoid this escalation of violence”.
