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Nice: a man shot dead in a probable settling of accounts

2022-05-26T11:12:36.004Z


A man in his thirties was shot dead in Nice on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, around 1:30 a.m., as part of a probable...


A man in his thirties was shot dead in Nice on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, around 1:30 a.m., as part of a probable settling of scores, the prosecution told AFP on Thursday. from Nice.

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The victim was alone on a stolen scooter and landed when another individual also on a scooter came up to him and shot him in the head with a 9mm bullet before leaving

," Parvine Derivery told AFP. , Assistant District Attorney.

It is obviously a settling of accounts, the circumstances of the homicide leave little doubt on this point

”, further noted the magistrate.

A city plagued by drug trafficking

The victim, born in 1994, is of Russian nationality.

She was known to law enforcement, but not for a history of drug trafficking.

On the other hand, she had already been the subject in 2020 of an attempted homicide with a Kalashnikov which had injured her in the leg.

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The facts occurred in front of a residence in the east of Nice where there is a large Chechen community, some of whose representatives had complained two years ago of seeing their city plagued by drug trafficking.

The prosecution opened an investigation in the act of intentional homicide with premeditation and entrusted it to the judicial police.

Source: lefigaro

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