Overview
- A brief fight outside the Sidobre clinic in Castres on Tuesday escalated to gunfire and a 44-year-old man died after being taken to hospital.
- Two others were treated, with one hospitalized for a knife wound and another slightly hurt by a fragment from the shots.
- Prosecutors have reclassified the case as murder and assigned it to the national judicial police known as the police judiciaire.
- Forensic teams sealed the parking area for evidence work and the prosecutor ordered an autopsy as investigators work to confirm the sequence of events.
- A police source said the clash followed the arrival of a stabbing victim at the clinic, and the mayor later warned of rising local violence he links to drug trafficking.