A young man died from three gunshots on Pointe Sable beach. Very little information is currently circulating about the circumstances of this murder that would amount to a reckoning. The public prosecutor of Pointe à Pître immediately initiated investigations.
FJO. • Posted May 1, 2023 at 5:39 PM, updated May 1, 2023 at 6:39 PM.
The man, in his 20s, was in the water on the shore of the beach when he was killed. Alarmed, all bathers and others who were on this beach reached the victim.
But very quickly everyone left the scene. A nurse who was present tried to help in vain.
One of the boatmen nevertheless agreed to take the victim’s body to the quays of Vieux-Bourg, where the rescue teams and the gendarmerie responded.
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In such a long weekend there are numerous water activities in this part of the Grand Cul de Sac marin and many young and old go there. Cape Pointe a Sable is located between Port Louis and Petit Canal.
According to the first words that were exchanged about the case, it was a chain theft that would have happened a few months ago and would have been the origin of this murder. According to witnesses on site, the perpetrator is said to have also been in his 20s and come to the crime scene to settle accounts. But at the moment we don’t know anymore.
The gendarmes present in Vieux Bourg after the murder in Pointe à Sable • ©L. Gaydu