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A shooting took place in the city center of Saumur (Maine-et-Loire), in front of a kebab restaurant, this Monday, June 3 evening, leaving one dead and one injured. For his part, the shooter fled.
This Monday evening, around 6 p.m., a shooting broke out in the city center of Saumur (Maine-et-Loire). A man fired a gun several times at people on the terrace of a kebab shop, revealed on Monday The Western Mail. The death toll was one dead and one injured. “A 21-year-old man was killed and another 20-year-old injured in the hand during a shooting which took place on rue du Général de Gaulle in Saumur around 6:15 p.m. on June 3, 2024,” he said. specified to AFP Alexandra Verron, public prosecutor of Saumur.
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A money debt of 80 euros?
“Investigations are underway to identify and find the shooter and possible accomplices,” added the magistrate. The motive would be “a money debt”, according to the same Source. Our colleagues from West France indicate that this would be around the sum of 80 euros. The perpetrator allegedly arrived by car and shot the two young men.
A Source close to the case explained to BFMTV that the suspects left in a car, a vehicle that had been rented. Its owner was placed in police custody, but this was lifted in the evening because he was not involved in the shooting. The prosecution indicated a little later, to our colleagues at BFMTV, that it had opened an investigation into murder and attempted assassination. The investigation was handed over to the Organized and Specialized Crime Division.
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Collateral victim
The victim of this shooting is a 21-year-old young man with no history. He would be a collateral victim of this debt of 80 euros, according to the manager of the kebab shop in front of which the tragedy occurred. He was hit in the abdomen and despite the intervention of a soldier and the manager first, then emergency services in a second, he did not recover from his fatal injury. For his part, the injured man has still not been heard by investigators and will be operated on this Tuesday.
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Asked by West France, a Saumur resident present at the time of the events, was completely shocked by the turn of events. “I was in the neighborhood, on foot, barely 200 m away, when someone arrived with his weapon and fired.” He also mentions six shots in total, including two fired inside the establishment. Alexandra Verron, the public prosecutor of Saumur, added that “investigations are underway to identify and find the shooter and possible accomplices”. West France evokes a killer already seen several times within the establishment.
