New drama near Nantes. A young man was killed Wednesday night in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique) by the passenger of a two-wheeler who shot at him near a tram station before fleeing, announced the prosecutor's office, which has opened an investigation for "murder".
Three episodes of gunfire in 24 hours
According to the first findings, "the victim, whose identification is not yet certain, was hit by three shots including one in the chest which could be the fatal shot," said in a statement the prosecutor of the Republic of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul. An autopsy is to take place Friday and the territorial direction of the judicial police of Nantes is seized of the case, "under the qualification of assassination," he said.
This murder is one of "three episodes of gunfire that the city of Nantes has been the scene of in the last 24 hours," laments the prosecutor, stressing that "it is not possible to indicate at this stage if these three episodes are linked". The last of them occurred Thursday around 02:30 a.m. at a gas station, during an "altercation" between the occupants of two vehicles, for reasons still undetermined.
Police called a few hours earlier
The police had already been called Wednesday around 15:30 p.m., a few hours before the tragedy, after "several shots by firearm" not far from the scene of the murder. They had found "the presence of eight impacts on the glass door of a building" as well as "many traces of blood" but no victim had been discovered, on site or in hospital.
