The prefecture lifts the security measures in Nantua
The prefect of Ain announced to lift the public order device which had been put in place this Thursday following a shooting which left one dead and two injured in the city center of Nantua, after the alleged shooter surrendered to the police and was arrested.
“End of the events in Nantua: lifting of the public order device”, indicates the prefect in a tweet. It also specifies that school transport will be provided normally “as soon as classes leave”.
A psychological cell has been opened in the sub-prefecture of Nantua for the population, and another support cell will be opened tomorrow by the National Education.
The prosecutor announces that the suspect was arrested in Nantua, near the scene of the events
The man suspected of being behind a shooting that left one dead and two injured on Thursday in downtown Nantua, Ain, was arrested near the scene of the incidentsaid the public prosecutor to BFMTV-RMC.
The author surrendered to the gendarmes at 2:50 p.m., the magistrate said.
A flagrant investigation of the head of the assassination was opened, a little earlier in the day, according to the parquet floor of Bourg-en-Bresse, which also specified that no terrorist connotation had for the time being put in evidence.
An open murder investigation, no terrorist connotation at this stage
A flagrant investigation of the head of the assassination was opened following a shooting that left one dead and two injured on Thursday in the city center of Nantua (Ain), the Bourg-en-Bresse prosecutor’s office told BFM TV. The investigation is entrusted to the research section of Lyon.
The case has no terrorist connotation at this stage, the prosecution also said. The author, currently on the run in the area, is actively sought.
Nantua school students confined, businesses closed
A restaurateur contacted by telephone, who did not wish to be identified, told AFP at midday that the shooter would be in the area: “The police are in front of the restaurant, in front of a building where it seems refugee the shooter” at the origin of the shooting which left one dead and two wounded this Thursday in Nantua (Ain).
“They told people to evacuate the area or go to their homes,” he said. “All the shops had to close,” he continued, information confirmed by several traders contacted by telephone by AFP.
The pupils of the schools of Nantua are “kept safe in the schools with enough to eat”, specified the prefect of Ain on Twitter, who also announced the opening of a psychological cell at the deputy. Nantua prefecture from 3 p.m.
“We are not reassured”: a resident testifies on BFMTV
A resident of Nantua (Ain), who runs a hairdressing salon in the city center, and is entrenched there with customers, indicates on BFMTV that she heard, around 10 a.m. this morning, “cries in the street of ‘nearby’, then saw ‘people running’.
“We are not reassured”, she confides, while the inhabitants feel “usually safe” there. It indicates that the gendarmerie carried out evacuations in the sector.
According to her, helicopters flew over this town of 4,000 inhabitants, and a “fifteen gendarmes of the GIGN” are present at the corner of the street of the living room. According to our information, about fifty gendarmes are mobilized.
The prefecture of Ain invites to “avoid the sector”
The prefecture of Ain evokes a “police operation in the city center” of Nantua and calls on residents to avoid the area. “Do not interfere with the police,” urge the authorities.
One dead, two injured in shooting
Hello everyone and welcome to this live dedicated to the shooting that took place in Nantua, in Ain. One person died and two others were injured after a brawl in a bar, a source close to the investigation told BFMTV. Several people are wanted, about fifty gendarmes are mobilized.