a man shot dead in the 8th arrondissement

A murderous shooting in broad daylight, in the beautiful districts of the capital. A man was shot dead this Wednesday in Paris by four people traveling on motorcycles, according to information from the Parisian. The shooting took place on Boulevard de Courcelles, in the 8th arrondissement.

The victim is said to be a 31-year-old real estate agent. According to a police source, one of the shooters first entered the real estate agency where his target worked. The 30-year-old would then have taken refuge in a business located nearby, where he would have been targeted by the shots. At least five shots were reportedly fired. After the shooting, the real estate agent would have been taken care of by the emergency services, before dying of the consequences of his injuries.

The four suspects on the run, their vehicles found

“It’s the Wild West”declared the mayor LR of the VIIIth arrondissement Jeanne d’Hauteserre, deploring ” that settling of scores take place during the day “, in the middle of“a very busy artery”.

For his counterpart in the neighboring 17th arrondissement, Geoffroy Boulard (LR), “ it’s an unusual scene in the neighborhood, I trust the crime squad to identify the perpetrators “.

All four shooters are currently on the run. Their two vehicles were found in the town of Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), sprayed with fire extinguishers to delay their identification. According BFM TVthe investigators would orient a priori towards the track of a settling of scores.