The murder of Nicolas Dumas, 22, becomes political. The Minister of the Interior reacted this Sunday to the death of the young Rugby player, who died during a shooting in the parking lot of a nightclub in Saint-Péray, west of Valence. “The death of Nicolas in Ardèche is a new tragedy. (…) Ultraviolence sows death and chaos,” he wrote on X, while he multiplies muscular declarations in the face of the “Mexicanization” of the country. “The fight we must wage requires legislative rearmament and determination from everyone at all times,” added Bruno Retailleau.
Bruno Retailleau is due to go to Marseille next week with the Minister of Justice, Didier Migaud, to present the first measures to combat drug trafficking.
The young man from Romans-sur-Isère was shot in the head on Thursday evening, in front of the Seven nightclub, while he was going out to party with friends on Halloween night. Transported in absolute emergency to the Valencia hospital center, he succumbed to his injuries on Saturday afternoon.
The Rugby Club Romans-Péage (RCRP), of which the deceased young man was a member, paid tribute to him on its Facebook page, saying it was “devastated again” by this death “in atrocious circumstances”. Sad coincidence, it is also within the same club that young Thomas played, killed during a ball in Crépol (Drôme) a year ago, in November 2023.
The shooting, believed to be linked to drug trafficking, broke out around 2:30 a.m. Friday. According to the first elements of the investigation, the perpetrator of the shots was dressed in black and had his face hidden under a hood. He fired a handgun before fleeing.
