A man in his fifties was “executed» by gunshot while he was driving his car on Tuesday in Doubs, and the perpetrator fled, we learned from the Montbéliard prosecutor.
«This is clearly an execution, apparently in cold blood.», declared the public prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois, who went to the crime scene.
Multiple shots
On the video surveillance cameras in the town of Allezcourt, near Montbéliard, “we see this man already armed, who goes up to the victim, brandishes his weapon and, in a very cold manner, fires several shots», added the magistrate who opened an investigation to “murder».
Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., this individual on foot left a sidewalk and headed straight towards a car that was maneuvering. “The individual takes a handgun from the back of his pants, points it at the driver's window and fires it several times.», Explains Mr. Lallois.
A 50-year-old woman injured
«The car traveled several hundred meters before stopping on a sidewalk“, he clarified. The gunshot-wounded driver then managed to escape from his car with the help of two witnesses. Conscious when help arrived, he died quickly at the scene.
Losing control of his car, the 50-year-old hit another vehicle driven by a 50-year-old woman, who was slightly injured, according to the firefighters.
The shooterfled in his vehicle which was parked nearby“, he is actively sought by the police, said the prosecutor.
The investigation was entrusted to the local judicial police service at the Montbéliard police station.
