Overview
- Two men on a scooter shot 51-year-old Éric Robic on Boulevard Victor Hugo in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and witnesses reported about five shots.
- Emergency crews tried to revive him, and he was pronounced dead about 45 minutes after they arrived.
- The assailants escaped, and police later found a scooter that may be theirs on the ramp of an underground parking lot in Paris’s 17th arrondissement.
- Investigators are reviewing CCTV footage, taking witness statements, and running forensic checks to identify the suspects.
- Robic had 12 convictions since 1994, including a 2014 involuntary manslaughter conviction tied to a 2011 fatal crash in Tel Aviv, and police have not identified a motive as they examine links to his past.