A man was shot dead near a narcotics sales point in Nîmes on Tuesday evening, while his 8-year-old son was in the vehicle targeted by the shooting, we learned from police sources and close to investigation.
The events took place around 9:30 p.m. in the Chemin Bas district of Avignon, one of the districts of the Gard prefecture plagued by poverty and drug trafficking, like those of Mas de Mingue or Pissevin, where Fayed, a 10-year-old boy lost his life on August 21, the victim of a stray bullet during a shooting, also near a deal point.
In a video circulating on social networks, the victim's body appears lying on the ground, right next to his vehicle.
According to police sources, the car was targeted by at least three shots.
The child was not hit or injured, these sources told AFP.
Still according to police sources, a vehicle described as the one borrowed by the shooter(s) was found burned during the night in the nearby town of Rodilhan.
Violence due to drug trafficking is growing sharply in Nîmes, where three people were shot dead near drug trafficking points in 2023: a 39-year-old man in January, little Fayed in August, then an 18-year-old teenager. forty-eight hours later, in all three cases in Pissevin.
Wednesday morning, the identity of the victim was not specified, nor if she was known to the judicial or police services.