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The Valence prosecutor's office announced the death of a 37-year-old man on Monday evening.
Brother of another victim shot on Sunday, he was also shot dead while driving his car.
"Around 6 p.m., this man who was alone in a vehicle on the public highway was targeted by an individual who fired several times", indicates the public prosecutor of Valence, Alex Perrin, confirming a information from
Dauphiné Libéré
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The death of the victim, hit by several projectiles including two to the head, was found on his arrival at the hospital, specifies Alex Perrin, according to whom "these facts are linked" to another murder which occurred the day before in Bourg-lès. -Valence (Drôme), the two victims belonging to the same siblings.
On Sunday morning, the younger brother of the man shot on Monday, aged 30, had indeed been killed in similar circumstances.
The prosecutor then indicated that it was an "act of settling accounts" having "a priori a link with various trafficking".
An investigation of flagrance was entrusted to the Valence branch of the Lyon judicial police.
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