French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich', say witnesses
A customer fatally shot a waiter at a pizzeria on
the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a
sandwich, according to witnesses.
The waiter’s colleagues called police after he was
shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb, 15km east of
Paris’s city centre on Friday night.
Attempts to revive the 28-year-old failed and he
died at the scene.
The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper “as
his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough”, fled the scene.
Police have opened a murder investigation.
With the shooter still on the run on Saturday,
shocked residents gathered outside the pizza and sandwich eatery. “He was
killed for a sandwich?” one asked, unbelievingly.
“It is sad,” said a 29-year-old woman. “It’s a quiet
restaurant, without any problems. It just opened a few months ago.”
Others noted high crime levels in the area, notably
drug-dealing and public drunkenness.
