Hospitalized for two days, after being seriously injured by a bullet in the neck Tuesday morning in front of his home in Breuil-le-Vert (Oise), Jean-Christophe P. died on Thursday, we learned from the Attorney of the Republic of Senlis, Jean-Baptiste Bladier.
The investigation, initially opened for the count of attempted homicide and entrusted to the research section of Amiens (Somme) and the research brigade of Clermont, is now being carried out for murder with premeditation.
"The examining magistrate is seized of facts qualified as assassination", specifies the Parisian prosecutor of Senlis.
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At around seven o'clock on Tuesday, the 41-year-old man was shot in the back of the neck while he was in his garden.
His neighbors, who heard the shot, saw him lying on the grass, lifeless.
The forties had been helicoptered "in absolute urgency" towards the hospital center of Amiens (Somme), where he died of his injuries on Thursday.
"It means that we can shoot someone in our town"
At this stage, no arrest has taken place, confirms the public prosecutor. And the mystery remains on the death of this physiotherapist who practiced in Liancourt and whom the residents describe as a "quiet" and "polite" man. According to witnesses interviewed by the Parisian, no outburst of voice would have preceded the shot and no suspect would have been seen. "We must let the investigation do and it takes time and work," we warn on the side of the gendarmerie.
While waiting for the result of the first investigations, the small town of the Picardy plateau of 3,000 inhabitants, where Jean-Christophe resided, is in shock. "This means that we can shoot someone in our city at seven in the morning," reacts Jean-Philippe Vichard, the mayor of Breuil-le-Vert, visibly moved. And the chosen one, who did not know the victim, to insist: “In the evening, we watch TV and we see the settling of scores in Marseille. And the next morning, we have an inhabitant who is shot dead in Breuil… It surprises… ”