An 18-year-old man was shot and killed on the night of Wednesday August 23 to Thursday August 24, in Nîmes, in the Pissevin district, “not far from the events that occurred on Monday evening and caused the death of a 10-year-old child. years, “announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac. Police were called shortly before 4 a.m. to respond to gunshots; “The facts [se] took place on the scene of a point of deal”, specifies the press release of Ms. Gensac.
Rescuers found the young man unconscious in this district made up of a set of towers, located on the western outskirts of Nîmes and where Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, had deployed members of the CRS-8 – a unit of “high intensity” policing – following the death of the 10-year-old child, the prosecutor reports. Casings of two different calibers, including 7.62, were found on the ground, according to a police source quoted by AFP.
According to the prosecutor, the victim did not come from Nîmes and was known to the police and justice services. Shot in the abdomen, the young man was taken care of by the emergency services but could not be revived. The Montpellier judicial police services were seized of the facts of “murder in an organized gang”, reports the prosecution.
