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A man died Sunday evening, around 6:30 p.m., in Nantes, in the Malakoff district, after being injured by a gun.
“
Despite the attempts at resuscitation, the victim was declared dead by the doctor SMUR
”, indicate the firefighters of Loire-Atlantique, mobilized to rescue the 28-year-old individual according to their information.
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According to a police source, the victim would have received five bullets, in the thigh, abdomen, flank and thorax.
“
He was known to us.
He hung out a lot in the city center
, ”adds the same source.
The author is on the run and the investigation has been entrusted to the judicial police.
The Nantes prosecutor's office should bring new elements in the coming hours.
“
Full support for residents.
The fight against trafficking must continue unabated.
State, Police, Justice, City all our forces must be concentrated to fight against this scourge!
“, reacted on Twitter the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland.
Rue d'Angleterre, a well-known address
The Malakoff district, close to the train station, is known in the world of drug trafficking.
It is in this same street of England that a month ago, a stray bullet had crossed the apartment of a family of inhabitants of a building.
That night, the firefighters also intervened for trash fires on rue d'Angleterre.
Friday evening, another man in his twenties was shot and wounded in the northern districts of the city of the Dukes.
His vital prognosis, however, was not engaged.
In the 2022 assessment against delinquency, the new prefect of Pays de la Loire and Loire-Atlantique, Fabrice Rigoulet-Roze, recalled at the end of February his desire for more "presence on the ground" of the
authorities
.
On this occasion, he indicated that between October 2022 and January 2023, foot patrols in Nantes city center were 453 compared to 174 a year earlier.
In the districts of Republican reconquest, this figure rose to 1155 between October 2022 and January 2023 against 330 in the same period twelve months earlier.
