The tragedy was narrowly avoided.
A man was grazed on Sunday by a stray bullet, which passed through his apartment in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), Le Figaro reported on Monday.
“He had just sat down on his sofa, he was very hot,” the man’s nephew said on X (ex-Twitter).
The bullet pierced a blind then passed through a glass door, before ending up in a wall.
She narrowly missed the man's head.
No complaints filed
The police responded to the scene to observe traces of the incident in the evening.
Expertise still needs to be carried out, but the trail of a lost bullet was deemed “very probable” by a source close to the case, interviewed by Le Figaro.
“We are not forbidding any hypotheses on the origin or motive of the shooting for the moment
,
” the police also responded to the daily, specifying that no complaint had yet been filed as of Monday morning.
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Dijon: a man killed in his sleep, collateral victim of shooting near a deal point
Several people in France have been victims of stray bullets in recent months.
A 55-year-old man was notably killed in November in his apartment in Dijon (Côte-d'Or) after a shooting on the facade of his building.
In September, the gang war also caused a collateral victim in Marseille, where Socayna, a young woman of 24, was fatally shot while she was in her room.