Overview
- In central Grenoble, a 38-year-old nightclub doorman was shot dead early Sunday, and a 26-year-old woman beside him was wounded.
- In Montmorillon on Sunday afternoon, two sisters were killed by gunfire, and the ex-partner suspected in the attack was arrested wounded and later died in hospital.
- In Villefranche-sur-Saône, a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot in a Belleroche shopping-centre room on Monday, and police detained two minors aged 12 and 15 as the firearm remains missing.
- Following Monday’s report of a separate killing in Grenoble’s Hoche area, police counted three gun deaths in the city within a week and said no links have been established between the recent homicides.
- The cases were assigned to specialized teams, with Grenoble’s interdepartmental judicial police and Lyon’s organized-crime division leading inquiries, and gendarmes in Vienne using elite units and a drone to secure the Montmorillon arrest.