The cour d’assises de la Gironde, the Gironde criminal assize court, sentenced a resident of Saint-Médard-en-Jalles to 18 years of réclusion criminelle for attempted murder on Wednesday 4 November 2026.[1] The court imposed the sentence the advocate-general had requested.[1] His lawyer said he does not intend to appeal.[1]

Some hours before the shooting, he took two savonnettes — slabs of cannabis resin — from a dealing network in the Grand-Caillou estate in Eysines.[1] The two slabs were estimated at 1,000 euros.[1] Ouest-France, citing Sud Ouest, reports that an armed group came to the young man’s door to recover the two slabs he had stolen from them hours earlier.[2] On 18 May 2022, about fifteen masked people came to settle a drug debt at his parents’ house in a residential estate of Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, and he handed the drugs back through his bedroom window.[1] The assailants also wanted him punished, forced their way in, and he came out with a pump-action shotgun and fired a first time.[1]

He went back inside for a .22 long rifle and fired again, gravely wounding a young man of 18 outside the neighbouring house, who has since lost the use of an arm.[2] The victim was hit in the right arm and then in the abdomen, and keeps a functional deficit above 40%, the lawyer for the civil party said.[1]

Six members of the group were identified and are soon to appear before other courts, Ouest-France reports.[2]