“An investigation has been opened on the count of intentional homicide. The investigations have been entrusted to the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP)”, indicated the prosecution. 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.
A friend of the victim also assaulted
The victim, a 31-year-old Breton, was driving home with a friend after dinner, according to this source. 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.
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”
A request for international criminal assistance, “in progress”, was transmitted to the Ivorian justice which also opened an investigation, according to this source. “You have to imagine different hypotheses even if, at this stage, it is a heinous crime”, estimated with AFP the father of the victim, Jean-Christophe Nourisson joined by telephone, without wanting to say more about the ongoing investigation.
His son had been in Abidjan for nearly five years on behalf of Bouygues Construction. “He was a network engineer and was responsible, among other things, for the construction of the Abidjan metro”, explained Jean-Christophe Nourisson, assuring that within his company, “he had a promising career”. “Clément told us that it was no more dangerous than in Paris or in another city”, he added, specifying that his son, without children, lived in a neighborhood “normally without history” where ” there are a lot of expatriates, a lot of Lebanese in particular and business leaders”.