In the Var, a man kills his Tunisian neighbor with five balls and broadcasts racist videos – Liberation

A man, of French nationality, killed on Saturday evening in Puget-sur-Argens (Var) one of his neighbors, of Tunisian nationality, and injured another, of Turkish nationality, while posting racist videos, said the prosecutor of Draguignan, Pierre Couttenier on Sunday.

Alerted by the 53 -year -old suspect’s partner, soldiers from the National Gendarmerie called on the Orange GIGN antenna to challenge, not far from the scene, the suspect, who had fled by car. Several weapons have been found in his vehicle, « of automatic pistol type, pump rifle and handgun ”, said the magistrate. “The identity of the fatally injured victim, possibly 35 years old, of Tunisian nationality remains to be confirmed. As for the victim injured by hand, aged 25, he is of Turkish nationality ”, he said. This was transported to the hospital in the neighboring town of Fréjus. According to another source, the deceased man was reached by five ball impacts.

Follower of sport shooting, the respondent has « Disposed before and after his acting two videos on his account of a social network with racist and hateful content », said the public prosecutor in his press release. He was placed in police custody.

« A procedure for investigating the flagration of murder leaders committed due to membership or the non-belonging, true or supposed of the victim to an ethnicity, a nation, an alleged race or determined religion committed in concomitance with another crime and attempted murder committed because of belonging or the non-belonging, true or supposed of the victim, a nation, alleged race or determined religion committed in concomitance ”, was opened, said the magistrate. The investigation was entrusted to the research brigade of the Draguignan gendarmerie.