Policeman killed in Avignon: behind the scenes of a hunt strewn with pitfalls

"

Many avenues of identification are underway and, sooner or later, we will have it

."

This sentence released Sunday by a police officer says a lot about the determination of the police to find the murderer of Brigadier Eric Masson, shot dead Wednesday evening in Avignon while he was intervening on a street deal.

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Four days after the facts, the shooter remains untraceable and no less than 80 investigators are on the fence.

At the forefront of the hunt, about fifty men from the judicial police of Montpellier and Marseille are exploring all avenues, with the support of public security and all possible reinforcements from the central management of the PJ, in particular the National Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI, anti-gang).

At the last stage of the investigations, the police did not yet have a formal identification on Sunday.

On the other hand, they work on “

profiles likely to be interesting

”, without distributing a precise role to the possible ones.

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