A 30-year-old man was shot dead overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, at Mas de Mingue, a working-class district of Nîmes (Gard), AFP learned from sources close to the investigation.
Alerted by a witness around 11:30 p.m. for a "man on the ground, on the public highway", the emergency services discovered him in a state of cardiac arrest.
The young man was injured by gunfire.
Evacuated by the firefighters, the 30-year-old was declared dead on his arrival at the hospital in Nîmes.
According to a source close to the investigators, the victim "is known to the authorities".
A homicide investigation has been opened.
It is the agents of the judicial police (PJ) of Montpellier (Hérault) who are in charge of the investigations.
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