Bobigny, France:
One person was killed and six were injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting believed to be related to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday.
The attack on a parking lot near a cultural center in Sevran, located between central Paris and the city's main airport, Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 PM (9:45 GMT) on Friday, prosecutors said.
When police arrived on the scene, police found four injured people scattered on the ground. One died shortly afterwards and the three others were taken to hospitals in serious condition, a police source said.
Three more people injured by bullets were later taken to hospital, the source said, adding that two men arrived at the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.
The attackers then fled.
Sevran Mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP “it was clearly a settlement of scores related to drug trafficking.”
“It is necessary to establish order and eradicate human trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed the call for calm.”
Police have opened an investigation into deliberate killing by an organized gang, they said. There had been no arrests as of Saturday morning.
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