Saturday evening in Nantes shortly before the meeting between the Canaries and Nice, a 31-year-old Nantes supporter (ultra of the Loire Brigade) was fatally attacked – probably with a knife – not far from Beaujoire. “As a continuation of the first investigations carried out during the night, a VTC driver went to the Nantes police headquarters this morning, at 4:30 a.m., and was placed in custody of the chief in particular ‘voluntary homicide, communicated this Sunday morning Renaud Gaudeul, public prosecutor of Nantes. He is a 35 year old man. »
In the columns of Ocean Pressanother VTC driver, heard during the night as a witness at the Nantes police headquarters, delivered his version of the facts. “We were in a convoy (2 vans and 6 other cars) to drop off 30 Nice supporters at the stadium when a horde of supporters wearing black or yellow and green hoods appeared and attacked ushe explains. They started opening the doors and hitting my customers inside. […] A guy kicked my grille. He turned around and hit my windshield. […] And all my other colleagues were attacked too. » A photo of a broken windshield has been published by the local daily.
“The judicial investigation, into the charge of intentional homicide, was entrusted by the Nantes public prosecutor’s office jointly to the territorial direction of the judicial police and to the Departmental Security of the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of Loire-Atlantique”the prosecutor also clarified during the night.
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