Le Figaro Nantes
His motives remain rather vague.
Perhaps they will clear up in front of the judge.
Sunday evening, a septuagenarian shot at the dumpster of a truck, around 8 p.m., with a shotgun, in the town of Vertou, south of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).
He was due to appear immediately at the end of the day on Wednesday, for violence with a weapon.
At the end of his police custody, he had not been imprisoned.
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The two passengers in the vehicle were not injured but were off work for five days.
If the suspect indicated that people were prowling in front of his home, the reasons for his shooting are not very established.
Was he annoyed?
Or, as Ouest France relate, did he have a dispute with the occupants of the truck?
The investigation does not say it yet, but the gendarmes dispatched to the scene seized other weapons at his home.