Of Italian nationality, the suspect in the shooting, which also left two people injured, is 20 years old. He was arrested in the Bricarde district, a stronghold of drug trafficking.
A man suspected of the murder of Nicolas, 22, killed Friday morning in front of a nightclub in Saint-Péray near Valence, was arrested this Monday, November 4 in Marseille, we learned Le Figaro from corroborating sources, confirming information from Europe 1. Aged 20 and of Italian nationality, the suspect in the shooting was arrested by the Anti-Crime Brigade of the North of Marseille, at the request of the judicial police, in the district of Bricarde, stronghold of drug trafficking. He was taken into custody, we are told.
Around 2:55 a.m. Friday, a hooded individual dressed in black fired several shots towards the queue of a nightclub in Saint-Péray (Ardèche), Le Seven, where nearly 800 people, many of them also dressed black, were participating in a Halloween party. Nicolas, aged 22, injured in the head, was transported in absolute emergency to the Valence hospital center, with a life-threatening condition, before dying from his injuries on Saturday. A customer and a security guard at the establishment, also in the queue, were slightly injured in the legs.
In the same Rugby club as Thomas, in Crépol
According to a security guard's account to investigators, the perpetrator of the shooting arrived on foot, “walking calmly with his hands in his pockets, before taking out a handgun, apparently of a small model” and to shoot a first time about forty meters from the queue. Several witnesses speak of four or five shots in total. A projectile resembling 9 mm caliber was found inside a Golf vehicle parked in the nightclub parking lot, after breaking the car window, according to a press release from the Privas prosecutor's office.
A white march will be organized on Wednesday in Romans-sur-Isère, by the Rugby Club Romans-Péage (RCRP). The march will leave from Place Paulin Pailherey at 3:00 p.m. to reach the Donnadieu stadium. It is also within the RCRP, and in this same stadium, that the young Thomas played, killed during a ball in Crépol (Drôme) in November 2023.
The Romans-Péage Rugby Club paid tribute to Nicolas on its Facebook page, saying “annihilated again” by this death “in terrible circumstances”. “#Nicolas is no more”reacted for her part the mayor of Romans-sur-Isère Marie-Hélène Thoraval on X. “An entire city devastated by this new tragedy, the consequence of a barbaric, gratuitous and totally senseless act”she lamented.
