A driver deliberately drives his car into a group leaving a nightclub in Toulon and leaves one dead

The man, aged 20, was arrested shortly after the incident.

An investigation was opened for assassination and attempted assassination, after the death of a man leaving a nightclub in Toulon (Var), hit by a car, revealed Wednesday May 1 France Bleu Provence, confirming a information from the Parisian. Another person was seriously injured and a third was slightly injured, specifies the Toulon public prosecutor’s office.

An altercation degenerated during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday outside the nightclub, Boy’s Paradise, near Toulon station.and continued on the public highway., indicates the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz. The event was initially considered an accident, but the motorist deliberately charged a group of people, according to the Toulon public prosecutor’s office which mentions “a deliberate act“.

Around 5:30 a.m. in the nightclub parking lot, an argument broke out, a man left to get his car, then charged the crowd of people. “He is accused of having deliberately run over several people with his vehicle. Results: one person died, one person in serious condition and another slightly injuredt”, specifies the prosecutor. The man who was killed is 38 years old and the one seriously injured is 33 years old. According to a witness, the man returned to the charge a second time, indicates France Bleu Provence. The driver of the car was arrested.shortly after the events, at his home, located in a town near Toulon“, continues the prosecutor. He is 20 years old. He was placed in police custody

An investigation is opened for “assassination and attempted assassination”. It is entrusted to the Var territorial crime division, the DCT.