In Grenoble, a municipal agent shot dead, what we know

A municipal agent died from his injuries after having received two bullets in the chest on Sunday morning. He was trying to hold back a reckless driver, responsible for a road accident at Grenoble, who then shot him.

The news broke early in the afternoon s-midi. The municipal agent who was shot in the city center of Grenoble on Sunday, September 8 in the morning has succumbed to his injuries. He had was hit by two bullets in the chest around 7:30 a.m., while he was trying to prevent a reckless driver from fleeing.

“The city of Grenoble, all of its agents and elected officials are in shock at this unspeakable act of extreme violence, which targeted one of its agents who was carrying out his municipal duties this Sunday morning”, the city reacted in a press release, we can read on BFMTV. 

According to the public prosecutor, the events took place following a “traffic accident nearby& of the Grenoble city hall”. “The person responsible for the accident fired two shots at a municipal employee who allegedly tried to prevent him from fleeing”, the prosecution described to the press, confirming information from the Le Dauphiné Libéré.

The shooter is still wantedé

An Audi violently hit a Peugeot 2008 on Boulevard Jean Pain, in front of the Grenoble town hall, France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes reports. The officer, “apparently” in the exercise of his duties at the time of the events, attempted to to prevent the Audi driver from fleeing. The driver then fired several shots in the direction of the officer. He was hit twice in the chest. The shooter is on the run. The public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation and entrusted it to the Grenoble judicial police (SLPJ), which is “actively” searching for the shooter, the prosecutor said. A psychology monitoring unit destination of the city staff will be set up on Monday by the municipality.

The agent is one of the heads of the city's cleaning service, specifies France Bleu. He was working in the Paul-Mistral park area on Sunday morning. In solidarity with their colleague, who is between life and death, the agents of the Grenoble cleaning service have decided not to clean the markets in the town this afternoon. “We are no longer safe “in the city, our leader comes to help and he gets shot like a dog. It's scandalous,” reacted Virgile, a city agent, to the microphone of France Bleu.