Affected by no less than nine bullet holes in the streets of Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) two weeks ago, a 27-year-old man died Friday at the Nantes University Hospital as a result of his injuries, we have learned Saturday from the city's public prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Ocean Press.
The shooting occurred on Thursday, July 30, shortly before 8 p.m., in a neighborhood in the west of the city, as the young man was walking in the street. The .44 Magnum bullets hit him in the arms and lower body, according to a source familiar with the matter. "The investigation is continuing," the prosecution said on Saturday, adding that the victim had already been sentenced by justice.
On July 28, the Saint-Nazaire police station and the narcotics brigade of the Nantes judicial police branch carried out a vast operation in a district close to the scene of the shooting, La Bouletterie, with the support of the Raid. According to a source familiar with the matter, the operation aimed to identify the members of a drug trafficking network established in this city, known to be "a real drug supermarket".
Linked shooting injures 12-year-old
Eight men suspected of being involved in drug trafficking had been arrested, according to Saint-Nazaire public prosecutor Sylvie Canovas-Lagarde. More than 90,000 euros, 525 g of heroin, 38 g of cocaine and 94 g of cannabis were also seized.
The day after the shooting aimed at the young man, that is to say on July 31, a car was targeted when it was stopped at a red light in Saint-Nazaire, in the Petit Caporal district, a little further north of the place of the first shooting.
According to the Saint-Nazaire public prosecutor's office, a 12-year-old girl who was in the car with two other children and a man behind the wheel was shot in the calf after a bullet went through the body. "The perpetrator or perpetrators were targeting a relative of the man injured the day before" and now deceased, said the prosecution.
