The French police and the Ivorian police will have to reveal the circumstances of the murder of a Frenchman shot dead in Abidjan.

"An investigation has been opened on the head of intentional homicide. The investigations have been entrusted to the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP)," the prosecution said on Wednesday.

The facts took place on the night of July 17 to 18, around 1 a.m., according to a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from the local Ivorian press.

The victim, a 31-year-old man, was driving home with a friend after dinner, the source said.

He was getting out of the vehicle when two men shot him, stole his money and his phone, and fled, according to this source.

The person accompanying him was not hit by the shots.

International criminal assistance

According to the local press, the two friends first agreed, at gunpoint, to give their personal belongings to their attackers.

The latter would then have shot the victim after she refused to let them go up to her apartment where her companion was sleeping.

“The investigation will have to clarify the course of the facts”, commented the source close to the file.

A request for international criminal assistance, "in progress", was transmitted to the Ivorian justice which also opened an investigation, according to this source.

According to the daily

Le Télégramme

, the victim, originally from Brittany, worked for Bouygues Construction and had arrived in Côte d'Ivoire in September 2018 as the main engineer on the Abidjan metro site.

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