The firefighters were called in the middle of the night around 1:30 a.m. this Thursday, in the Saint-Roch district in the northeast of Nice.
They found a man in his thirties who had died after being shot in the head.
According to France Bleu, the judicial police were seized to clarify the circumstances of the tragedy.
"The victim was alone on a stolen scooter and landed when another individual also on a scooter came up to him and shot him in the head with a 9mm bullet before leaving," Parvine Derivery told AFP. , deputy prosecutor of Nice.
“It is obviously a settling of accounts, the circumstances of the homicide leave little doubt on this point”, further noted the magistrate.
An investigation for intentional homicide with premeditation
The victim, born in 1994, is of Russian nationality.
She was known to the justice services but not for a history of drug trafficking.
On the other hand, she had already been the subject in 2020 of an attempted homicide with a Kalashnikov which had injured her in the leg.
The facts occurred in front of a residence in the east of Nice where there is a large Chechen community, some of whose representatives had complained two years ago of seeing their city plagued by drug trafficking.
The prosecution opened an investigation in the act of intentional homicide with premeditation and entrusted it to the judicial police.
Deputy Éric Ciotti reacted this Thursday morning.
"Support for the residents of the neighborhood who have suffered for several years from the rise in violence in our city", he launched on Twitter, deploring that "a 30-year-old man was shot in the head on the public highway.
East of Nice, a 30-year-old man was shot in the head on the public highway.
Support for the inhabitants of the neighborhood who have suffered for several years from the rise in violence in our city.
— Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti) May 26, 2022