INVESTIGATION – The Grenoble public prosecutor’s office announced this Monday morning that one of the two men injured Saturday evening in Fontaine, during a shootout, has died.
One of the two men shot on Saturday night in Fontaine, near Grenoble, has died, Grenoble public prosecutor Eric Vaillant said Monday morning. This “31-year-old Italian cannabis user” died at 11 p.m. on Sunday in hospital, he said. He had been shot in the head.
On Saturday evening, around 11:15 p.m., two people were injured by Kalashnikov fire on Place Louis Maisonnat. “About twenty cartridge cases were found by investigators,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The second injured man, the same age as the first, was “slightly injured in the back.” “He is known to the police for insults, violence and drug use,” the prosecutor continued.
An investigation in progress
During their escape, “the criminals had a material collision with a motorist who pursued them, until two passengers threatened him with their weapons,” said Eric Vaillant before adding that the vehicle of the perpetrators of these attempted murders was found burned in a western district of Grenoble, shortly after the events. An investigation has been opened by the public prosecutor’s office.
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