Bastia: one dead, six injured; the gunman took his own life

According to several media outlets, a pedestrian opened fire on passers-by at around 4 pm on Wednesday on a street in the Montesoro neighbourhood of Bastia. One person has died and six others have been injured, including a police officer. A pensioner The suspected gunman, who is believed to be a pensioner, has barricaded himself inside his home in the Cité Aurore housing estate, where it cannot be ruled out that there are at least two other injured people. These victims are reported to have been stabbed. The neighbourhood has been cordoned off by a large police presence. A specialist unit is expected on the scene to negotiate with the gunman, or even storm the premises to rescue the injured inside the housing estate building or at the pensioner’s home. RAID on the scene Officers from the SRPJ’s Investigation and Intervention Brigade (BRI) took up positions around the building at around 6 pm. The RAID unit arrived on the scene from Marseille at around 10.30 pm. After assessing the layout of the premises, the elite officers entered the flat on the third floor shortly before midnight. In a life-threatening condition The 65-year-old pensioner was found dead. He took his own life, according to the Haute-Corse prefecture. Among the six injured, a 23-year-old tenant of the building is in a very serious condition, and his life is in danger. The pensioner, a hot-tempered, even violent man in his sixties, was already known to the police and the courts in Bastia for regularly threatening and assaulting his neighbours. A neighbourhood dispute that escalated into a bloodbath, for reasons that an investigation by the Bastia police will seek to establish.