Le Figaro Nantes
The tragedy was narrowly avoided.
Sunday February 11, in the early evening, a man sits quietly in his armchair, at his home, rue Félix Ménétrier in the Nantes district of Doulon-Bottière.
It's nice, his dinner is hot.
Suddenly, a bullet flies.
She pierces a blind, a glass door, then lodges in a wall opposite her home.
She narrowly avoids the head of the person, who has just survived - willy-nilly - a stray bullet.
It took the victim a few seconds to understand what had happened.
His experience was limited to that of a detonation, of an impact noise.
He finally calls the police when he notices the holes caused by the bullet.
Then, he warns his loved ones
.
“He had just sat down on his sofa, he was very hot
,” the man’s nephew testified on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Intervening in the evening, the police noticed that the shutters of the accommodation were closed at the time of the accident.
Requested by
Le Figaro,
the Interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police specifies that the traces of what looks like a 9 mm bullet should be assessed, with the rest of the house, before being formally confirmed
.
“We are not forbidding any hypothesis at this time about the origin or motive of the shooting,”
the police simply indicate.
No complaint had yet been filed as of Monday morning.
Powerlessness of law enforcement
“The probability that someone will be arrested is extremely low,”
points out a source close to the case, however, supporting the
“very probable”
lead of a lost bullet.
The helplessness of the police was clearly visible on Sunday evening.
“They are jaded and barely shocked
,” relates the victim’s nephew.
Last year, around forty episodes of gunshots were recorded by the Nantes police.
Some of them kill.
The last victim taken away in these shootings fell in October 2019. She was 19 years old.