After the shooting death of a young Rugby player near Valence, two suspects arrested in the South-East, what we know

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS – Two arrests five days after the events. The investigation continues this Tuesday, November 5 to identify the individual who opened fire in the direction of the queue of a nightclub in Ardèche during Halloween evening last Thursday. This shooting cost the life of Thomas, a young Rugby player aged 22, who was shot in the head. Two arrests took place during the day on Monday, one in Marseille and the other in Cavaillon, a police source told AFP on Tuesday.

According to a source close to the case, the man arrested in Cavaillon is suspected of being the Saint-Péray shooter. He is 23 years old, according to information from our colleagues at Parisian et RTL. The individual arrested in Marseille is suspected of being the driver who allowed the shooter to get to the scene and then flee. Aged 19 and of Italian nationality, he was arrested at a drug deal point in a housing estate in the north of the city, police said.

The two suspects will have to detail their schedules

During the night from Thursday to Friday, around 2:55 a.m., a hooded individual dressed in black fired several shots in the direction of the queue at the Le Seven nightclub, before fleeing. The shooting left one victim: Nicolas, aged 22, shot in the head and died during the day on Saturday at the Valence hospital center. His death, a year after that of young Thomas, killed during a ball in Crépol (Drôme), particularly moved their joint rugby club, the Rugby Club Romans-Péage.

A customer and a security guard at the establishment suffered minor leg injuries. Nearly 800 people attended this Halloween evening.

The two young men arrested this Monday will have to “answer for their schedule and their situation at the time of the death of this rugby player”, a explained on RMC Bruno Bartocetti, delegate of the southern zone of the police union SGP police unit. “ They will have to respond for several hours, especially if we discover that we are in the background of [trafic de] drugs, since in this case police custody can last up to 96 hours,” he said. Asked by AFP, the Privas prosecutor's office indicated that it did not wish to communicate at this stage.

Also see on The HuffPost: