toulon · FR
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A man was shot dead in Toulon, in the Var, during the week of 13 to 19 July 2026. He and his attacker had argued beforehand and had arranged to meet through social media. The attacker waited at a concealed position and fired twice at the victim's car as it arrived at the agreed place; one round struck the driver in the head, and the vehicle crashed. Emergency services took him to the nearest hospital in a critical condition, where he died shortly afterwards. Several witnesses told French police they had seen the suspect carrying a firearm near the scene. The gunman fled. French investigators established that people close to him had given him money and driven him by road to Barcelona so that he could leave the European Union as soon as possible. The Toulon public prosecutor's office issued an international arrest order on the day of the killing, and French authorities issued a European Arrest and Surrender Order and asked the Spanish National Police for assistance. Officers from the fugitives group of the provincial judicial police brigade placed the hotel where he was believed to be staying under surveillance and arrested him there on 24 July 2026. A Barcelona court ordered his immediate surrender to France, where the offence carries a sentence of life imprisonment.
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- Imputato — 24 luglio 2026 fonte
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- country corrected from ES to FR, city from 'barcelona' to 'toulon', incident_date from 2026-07-24 to 2026-07-13, and victim sex set to M; id reassigned from es-2026-0008 to fr-2026-0013 and the file moved from data/incidents/es/ accordingly. Barcelona was only where the fugitive was arrested on 24 July 2026; the shooting itself took place in Toulon, in the Var, during the preceding week. The victim's death, which the original La Vanguardia source left open by describing him only as evacuated in a critical condition, is confirmed by corroborating Spanish national-police reporting.