A man suspected of being the author of the fatal shooting which killed a young rugby player in front of a nightclub in Saint-Péray (Ardèche), near Valence, was arrested Monday in Marseille on a deal point, it was reported learned from a police source.
The alleged perpetrator of the shooting which killed Nicolas, 22, and injured two other people, was arrested in the city of Bricarde, in the northern districts of Marseille, according to consistent sources.
He had been on the run since the tragedy that occurred during the night from Thursday to Friday.
Asked by AFP, the Privas prosecutor’s office indicated that it did not wish to communicate at this stage.
The murder of young Nicolas, a year after that of young Thomas, killed during a ball in Crépol (Drôme), was particularly emotional in their common rugby club, the Rugby Club Romans-Péage, which announced on Monday that it was organizing a march white in his honor on Wednesday.
Around 2:55 a.m. Friday, a hooded individual dressed in black fired several shots in the direction of the queue at the Le Seven nightclub where nearly 800 people, many of whom also dressed in black, were participating in a Halloween evening. .
Nicolas, injured in the head, was transported in absolute emergency to the Valence hospital center, with a life-threatening condition, before dying on Saturday.
A customer and a security guard at the establishment, also near the queue, were slightly injured in the legs.
