During the night from Friday to Saturday, a 33-year-old man arrived with a friend.on what was clearly a meeting place for a drug transaction” in this Normandy town, located west of Rouen, the public prosecutor of Evreux, Rémi Coutin, told AFP.
“Very quickly, he is confronted by two cars from which several individuals emerge.“, specified the magistrate. While the man and his friend “try to leave, they shoot him with weapons of different calibers“.
Sitting in the passenger seat, the man is seriously injured and the driver “manages to drive to the Pont-Audemer fire station“, where the death of the victim is noted, declared Mr. Coutin.
The attackers are on the run and an investigation into “organized gang murder and attempted organized gang murder” was opened by the prosecution, with “flagrant investigation”, according to the same source.
“The shots were as much aimed at the victim as at (the driver of the vehicle), he was lucky not to be hit“, added the magistrate.
