Le Figaro Nantes
Thursday evening, around 19 p.m., emergency services intervened in Saint-Herblain, a town bordering Nantes, to rescue a 24-year-old man injured "following a firearm attack". According to the intervention report of the departmental operational center of fire and rescue (CODIS) of Loire-Atlantique, "the man is slightly injured" and was "transported to the CHU" of Nantes.
Four firefighters were mobilized to come to the rescue of the victim who was at the level of Boulevard Salvador Allende and the corner of Boulevard du Tertre. The national police were also on site. The victim would be injured in the calf, according to information from Ocean Press.
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Near a deal point
As for the precise circumstances of the attack, they remain rather unclear for the time being. It should be noted that this took place near an address known to the police to be a point of deal. According to Presse Océan, the gunman arrived on a motorcycle and then opened fire several times with an automatic pistol before fleeing.
A few hours earlier, at a press conference related to her mid-term review, the mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, had raised the issue of security in the city. In particular, she stated that "security issues are largely rooted in drug trafficking. You have to have that lucidity.
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