“Fatal Shooting Near Nantes Tram Station: Three Gunshot Incidents in 24 Hours”

Wednesday evening, a young man was killed in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique, by the passenger of a two-wheeler who shot at him near a tram station before fleeing, announced the prosecution. An investigation was opened for “assassination”.

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”, indicates in a press release the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul. An autopsy must take place on Friday, and the territorial direction of the judicial police of Nantes is seized of the case, “under the qualification of assassination”, he specifies.

Three shootings in 24 hours

This murder is one of “three episodes of gunfire which the city of Nantes has been the scene of in the last 24 hours”, deplores the magistrate, stressing that it “is not possible to indicate to this stage if these three episodes are linked”.

The police had already been called on Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. after “several gunshots”, not far from the scene of the murder. They had noted “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 the spot or in the hospital.

The last “episode” of gunshots in the Nantes suburbs occurred on Thursday, around 2:30 a.m., in a service station, during an “altercation” between the occupants of two vehicles, for reasons still undetermined. An individual had drawn a weapon and fired on two occupants of the other vehicle. “If the days of one of them, affected in the lower limbs, do not appear to be in danger, it is not the same for the second, affected in the thorax”, explains the magistrate. An investigation for attempted murder has also been opened for these facts.