A docker found shot and wounded after being kidnapped in Le Havre

The port of Le Havre.

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Reported missing this Tuesday around midnight, a dock worker was found around 7:30 am near Le Havre airport (Seine-Maritime).

He was discovered shot in the leg, according to information from

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Aged forty years, the man was conscious when help arrived.

In absolute urgency, he was evacuated to the Jacques-Monod hospital center.

The victim was to be operated on this Tuesday before being heard by the police.

Dock worker found dead in June

According to information from our colleagues, the kidnapping of the docker would be linked to cocaine trafficking.

Kidnappings of dockworkers are not uncommon, there have been around fifteen in the past two years.

Two months ago, the body of a man was found mutilated in a town north of Le Havre.

Docker too, he had been indicted in a narcotics case after the seizure of more than a ton of cocaine in the port of Le Havre.

The investigation of this new kidnapping was entrusted to the Le Havre branch of the regional judicial police service (SRPJ).

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