Two days after a fatal shooting in the Corsican capital, a 43-year-old man wanted for shootings in a bar took himself prisoner on Wednesday evening, the Ajaccio prosecutor's office said in a press release.
He was placed in police custody, said the public prosecutor, Nicolas Septe. He is suspected of being the author of the fatal shooting of a young firefighter, within the “Le Lamparo” establishment in the center of Ajaccio, Monday evening. Six people were also injured.
The “track of a private dispute between the author of the shots and the victim” is favored, the prosecutor indicated on Tuesday. The investigations are in the hands of an investigating magistrate for “attempted murder and murder”, and entrusted to the judicial police.
Drama before Christmas
“Aiacciu (Ajaccio in Corsican) and Corsica mourn one of their children, whose life was cut short, and several seriously injured. The time has come for mourning. There will necessarily come that of collective reflection to put an end to this madness,” Gilles Simeoni, president of the Corsican community, wrote on Tuesday on X.
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