The man discovered Monday evening seriously injured in an apartment in Bastia alongside two deceased men and a woman finally succumbed to his injuries, we learned on Wednesday from the Bastia prosecutor’s office.
This man in his forties, whose vital prognosis was “very serious” on Tuesday, died, Jean-Philippe Navarre, the public prosecutor of Bastia, told AFP, confirming information from Corsica-Morning.
Led by a local resident, the police made the macabre discovery on Monday around 7 p.m. Among the three deceased people, apparently dead “following the use of a firearm”, was “the official tenant of the accommodation”, the magistrate specified.
No preferred investigation hypothesis at the moment
“Aged in their forties, the four victims were known to the legal authorities and one of them for the use of narcotics,” he added Tuesday afternoon in a press release.
The police custody of “two people close to the victims” was lifted on Wednesday evening “without prosecution”, the prosecutor told AFP. The magistrate had clarified a little earlier in the day that no judicial investigation had been opened at this stage.
The investigation, into intentional homicide, was entrusted to the Bastia judicial police.
“The context of the facts remains undetermined and no investigation hypothesis is favored,” he insisted on Tuesday.
The apartment was often noisy
The events took place in a working-class neighborhood in the south of Bastia, in a HLM apartment located on the ground floor of a small three-story building where police officers and a forensic doctor had carried out their findings throughout part of Monday night. on Tuesday, noted an AFP correspondent.
What happened behind door 73 of this residence? The day after the tragedy was discovered on Tuesday, blood was still visible in front of the entrance to this cramped two-room apartment whose windows are equipped with bars and mesh. In the basic kitchen, traces of blood were visible from the window.
For those interviewed by AFP at the scene, all of whom refused to give their identity, the apartment was often noisy and the police had come on several occasions to stop the noise, with some neighbors citing drug use.