Three males had been shot useless in Martinique on the evening of Friday December 19 to Saturday December 20, together with two in the identical metropolis, Agence France-Presse (AFP) discovered on Saturday from the prosecution and safety sources, bringing the variety of homicides on this division to 40 in 2025.
The first murder was dedicated on the night of Friday within the city of Ozanam within the commune of Schœlcher, within the middle of the French West Indies island, in response to the gendarmerie and the Fort-de-France prosecutor’s workplace. The sufferer, a 19-year-old boy, was fatally shot. According to a supply near the case, he was discovered on the general public freeway with two bullets to the chest. His dying was famous by an emergency physician at 10:20 p.m. native time (3:20 a.m. in Paris), mentioned the prosecutor, Yann Le Bris, in a press launch.
“According to the first testimonies collected, and which the investigation entrusted to the gendarmerie research section will have to confirm, a few moments before being the victim of the fatal shootings, the deceased had violently argued with another man, for reasons linked to their romantic relationships”added the Justice of the Peace.
Around 12:15 a.m., whereas investigators had been finishing up findings on the scene of this crime, they heard photographs and found a person on the foot of a constructing with a deadly gunshot wound to the top, in response to a supply near the case. A Taurus pistol was discovered on him, the prosecutor mentioned. “The public outcry” designated “this new victim could be the author of the first fatal shots” occurred within the metropolis just a few hours earlier, he additional reported.
“Reinforced emergency measures”
The third murder of the evening passed off in Lamentin (middle) round 4:30 a.m. native time, in response to the prosecution. On the sidelines of a festive occasion organized on the Carrère racecourse, a brawl broke out between a number of individuals and a person was shot within the chest. His dying was declared round 5:00 a.m. Three shell casings had been discovered on the crime scene, in response to police sources. The judicial police had been charged with the investigation, with out reference to the earlier one.
Forty homicides, together with 34 by firearm, have been dedicated in Martinique because the begin of 2025. The use of weapons, significantly amongst younger individuals, constitutes a scourge there, as in Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin. In a press launch on Saturday, the prefect of Martinique Etienne Desplanques “reaffirms its determination and the complete mobilization of law enforcement in the fight against trafficking, in particular arms trafficking, and its profoundly destabilizing effects” on the island. “The Martinican population has the right to expect a firm and determined reaction to this dramatic spiral”reacted for his half the president of the chief council of Martinique Serge Letchimy, calling in a press launch on the State to take “reinforced emergency measures”.
In Guadeloupe, the evening was additionally marked by a murder, this time with a knife: in Saint-François, emergency providers intervened for a person in cardio-respiratory arrest on the general public freeway who had three wounds on his higher physique and couldn’t be resuscitated, in response to a supply near the case. At least 51 homicides had been recorded in 2025 throughout the jurisdiction of the Basse-Terre Court of Appeal, which incorporates Guadeloupe and the French a part of the island of Saint-Martin. In Guadeloupe and Martinique, the murder price is roughly six occasions increased than the nationwide common.
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