What we know about the death of a municipal agent, shot dead in Grenoble after a road accident

The city’s sanitation worker died of his injuries. The driver fled the scene.

A municipal agent was shot dead on Sunday, September 8, in Grenoble (Isère). Employed in the city’s cleaning service, he was the target of gunfire after trying to restrain the perpetrator of a traffic accidentThe driver fled, according to Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant.. Here is what we know about the drama.

Municipal agent hit by two bullets in the chest

According to Grenoble public prosecutor Eric Vaillant, interviewed by franceinfo, the accident occurred around 7:30 am on Sunday, on Boulevard Jean-Pain, in front of the entrance to the Stade des Alpes, near Grenoble town hall. An Audi, with a Polish license plate, hit a Peugeot, which was reduced to a wreck.

The driver of the Audi, drunk, according to the prosecutor’s office, tried to flee. A passerby tried to stop him. The city’s cleaning agent got out of his vehicle to help him. The driver of the Audi then fired twice at the municipal employee. The agent was hit twice in the chest.

Transported to the city’s university hospital with a life-threatening prognosis, he succumbed to his injuries. The driver of the Peugeot was not injured in the accident, but is in shock.

Investigation opened to find shooter

The shooter fled. He is “actively” wanted, assured the prosecutor, even if his identity remained unknown Sunday late afternoon. The public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation. This has been entrusted to the local judicial police department in Grenoble.

The city of Grenoble has, for its part, set up a crisis unit, reports France Bleu Isère. In solidarity with their colleague and to alert the municipality about the situation, the city’s cleaning service agents announced that they would not clean the town’s markets on Sunday afternoon.

A tribute in honor of the victim

The mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, paid tribute to the memory of an agent “highly recognized, highly respected in the professional setting”of a “supervisor, trainer”, “very committed, very attached to public service”He said a tribute to the officer would be paid on Monday at 2 p.m. at the city hall. “We are in mourning”the mayor stressed on the social network X, referring to “an unspeakable act of extreme violence”. “All our support to his family, his loved ones and to all the grieving people of Grenoble”reacted on X the secretary of the Ecologists-The Greens, Marine Tondelier, a few hours later.

“All our thoughts go to [ses] relatives, his work colleagues and comrades in struggle” reacted on Facebook the CGT union of Greater Grenoble. The Isère prefecture also expressed its solidarity with the colleagues of “the municipal service agent murdered in the streets of Grenoble”.

The Green senator from Isère, Guillaume Gontard, also expressed his “anger and [de sa] “deep emotion”. “My thoughts go out to his family, friends and colleagues. The perpetrator of these intolerable acts must be arrested quickly.”