A 29-year-old man is in a critical condition in a Toulon hospital after he was shot in the head by a police officer. Police were called out to the Mourillon district of the city in the early hours of Sunday morning amid reports that the man was threatening customers in a restaurant. When police arrived at the scene, the man fired shots in their direction. The officers fired back, with one of the shots hitting the man in the head. He was taken to Sainte-Anne hospital in Toulon in a life-threatening condition. The general inspectorate of the national police is carrying out an investigation.
Six people have been injured, one seriously, in a crash involving three cars in Peillon. The victim with serious injuries is a man in his 20s. The accident happened on Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, a motorcyclist has been seriously injured in a crash with a car on the main road from Mandelieu-la-Napoule to Fréjus on Saturday afternoon. 10 firefighters from Cannes La Bocca and Théoule-sur-Mer were called to the scene. The victim, a 23-year-old man, was taken to Pasteur hospital in Nice. The driver of the car was treated for shock.
And a driver had a lucky escape after a landslide caused major damage to their car between Isola and Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée yesterday evening. The car's front windscreen, bonnet and engine were destroyed in the impact from the falling boulders. Gendarmes were called out and one person was treated for minor injuries.
A demonstration in Nice calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for peace in the Middle East was allowed to go ahead this weekend - despi
