It could be a settling of accounts. The manager of a Valréas grocery store, north of Carpentras (Vaucluse) was coldly shot Tuesday evening by a shooter who is actively sought, indicate the prosecution and a gendarmerie source.
Around 8:30 p.m., a local resident reports to the gendarmes shots fired in a grocery store in the center of Valréas. Upon their arrival, the firefighters noted that the manager of the place, a 43 -year -old man, was killed: he presents bullet injuries to the head and in the rib cage, indicates the Carpentras prosecutor’s office. Despite attempts to resuscitate help, the victim succumbs to his injuries.
The victim questioned in murder and sequestration cases
According to our information, the witness who reported the precise shots to the gendarmes that a hooded man left the crime scene on the handlebars of a scooter. The flagrance survey was entrusted to the Marseille research section gendarmes and the Orange research brigade.
The victim is very unfavorably known to justice. Still according to our information, he was notably involved in narcotics, forcible confinement and murder. This suggests the investigators that his assassination is a settling of accounts.
