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Two men killed at shisha bar in Ivry-sur-Seine

By , based on La Nouvelle Tribune

Map: Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Two men were shot dead at the L’Atelier shisha bar in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, on the night of 11 to 12 October; a security guard was injured in the hand. A 29-year-old woman from Marseille was arrested and is suspected of having taken part in the murders, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office and information reported by Cerfia.

Two men were shot dead at the L’Atelier shisha bar in Ivry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne, on the night of 11 to 12 October. The manager died at the scene and a second victim died in hospital on Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

Zohra A., a 29-year-old woman from Marseille, was arrested as part of the investigation, according to an announcement posted on X by the Cerfia account on Thursday 15 October 2026. She is suspected of having been recruited as a contract killer and travelling from Marseille to carry out a hit, but no official source had confirmed this theory at the time of the announcement.

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