A shooting that occurred in La Grande-Motte on Monday, August 26, near the La Dune nightclub, left two victims. The artist SCH was clearly targeted.
La Grande-Motte is once again in the headlines this Monday morning, for criminal acts that have no connection with the attack on the synagogue that occurred last week. As reported by France info and BFMTV, a firearm attack left one person dead this Monday, August 26, around 6 a.m., near the La Dune nightclub, a popular spot in the seaside town in Hérault.
According to the first elements of the investigation, it was the Marseille rapper SCH who was targeted. The latter sang on Sunday evening, August 25 in this nightclub. We already know that this attack, clearly premeditated and well organized, was carried out from a car. Four people on board this vehicle allegedly carried out an assault with automatic firearms, targeting another car. The passenger was killed and the driver was seriously injured by a burst of gunfire. The rapper SCH was not in the attacked car at the time of the assault.
According to information from Midi Libre, the victims were indeed part of the close entourage of a rapper: the man killed was a member of his artistic team and the seriously injured man is the rapper’s driver. The investigation has been entrusted to the Montpellier research section.
The preferred lead by investigators would be that of settling scores linked to organized crime. It is therefore not excluded that the rapper was targeted for reasons specific to drug trafficking, which is very well established in Marseille, where the rapper is from. But nothing yet allows us to link organized crime, drug trafficking and this attack organized in a very professional manner.
Let us recall that crimes linked to drug trafficking are particularly numerous in Marseille: 49 people were killed in connection with Marseille drug trafficking in 2023, 26 in 2021 and 33 in 2022, according to figures from the Marseille public prosecutor’s office.
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14:16 – Shooting in a busy area
The shootings targeting rapper SCH and his team took place on the road that runs along the Grand Travers beach between La Grande-Motte and Carnon. This is an area that is usually very popular with tourists and locals, but this gun attack took place a little before 6 a.m., at a time when the surrounding area is deserted. At this time, this section of road remains closed to passers-by. The police and gendarmes from both municipalities are blocking access, while initial findings are being made. The prefect and the public prosecutor of Montpellier went to the scene.
13:08 – New information on the victims of the shooting
According to information gathered by the Agence France Presse, which relies on a source in the gendarmerie, the passenger who was killed in this attack was hit by two bullets in the chest. The injured driver is in critical condition, his life is in danger.
12:17 – The Montpellier public prosecutor will speak
The gendarmes of the Montpellier research section are currently still making observations on the crime scene. The public prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Bélargent, announced that he would provide the first elements of the investigation during the day. We should therefore know more about the suspects and the links between this deadly assault and the rapper SCH in the afternoon.