The circumstances of the Nantes tragedy are now clearer. And terrible.
The VTC driver who went to the Nantes police headquarters on Sunday morning was brought before the Nantes public prosecutor’s office this Monday, barely two days after the death of an FCN supporter not far from Beaujoire. The first elements of the investigation reported an attack on a VTC convoy responsible for dropping off OGC Nice supporters near the stadium by Nantes ultras determined to do battle with their Riviera counterparts. A thesis supported by the suspect, who claims to have simply wanted to defend himself.
Known to the police and the courts for four mentions in his record and already firmly imprisoned in the past for drug trafficking, the 35-year-old driver currently detained “ denies wanting to intentionally stab anyone but only gesticulating with the knife to protect himselfnotes Le Parisien. But, according to our information, video surveillance images, videos filmed from cell phones and testimonies show the opposite. »
VTC customers extorted
A video from another VTC vehicle – initially hidden from investigators by the driver of this second car – makes it possible to “ highlight the blows », Reports the public prosecutor of Nantes Renaud Gaudeul. “ These images make it possible to determine, while the VTC vehicle is attacked, that the driver is brandishing a bladed weapon. He would have pushed the attacker away and fallen to the ground. Then on the ground, he allegedly made a first stab. The supporter got up, tried to flee and suffered a second stab wound. »
When returning to his vehicle in a panic, the VTC driver confided to the Nice supporters still present in his car that he had “ planted a guy in the back » – an admission reiterated by telephone to his colleagues. The three customers interviewed by investigators also claim to have had to pay their driver a sum of 300 euros each, under duress, to cover the costs of repairing the damaged vehicle. The suspect was still in possession of the bladed weapon that caused the tragedy. A weapon which has not been found at this time.
