French Billionaire shot dead in 'professional hit'

[sixmile]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8850509/Billionaire-French-hotelier-shot-dead-in-professional-hit.html

'The lifeless body of Claude Dray, 76, was found with three bullet holes in the neck in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Paris suburb where President Nicolas Sarkozy built his career and still owns property.
A butler found Dray's corpse at 9am on Tuesday following a death that had all the hallmarks of a professional hit.'

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"Somebody got in and fired three bullets into the victim's neck," said one detective at the scene who asked not to be named, adding that a silencer had likely been used as domestic staff heard nothing.'

more at link

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38965/prominent-art-deco-collector-claude-dray-killed-in-mysterious-shooting-outside-paris/

Prominent Art Deco Collector Claude Dray Killed in Mysterious Shooting Outside Paris

[sarcasmo]

1. Are the French blaming AL-CIA-DUH?

[xchrom]

2. Huh. I wonder what this will be about.

Maybe the art deco collectors are tougher than I realized.

[sixmile]

4. It's Big Art™

Lots of money in it...

[reggie the dog]

7. he owns a swank hotel in Saint Tropez too

perhaps he refused to pay the "corsican tax"

[Ghost Dog]

9. "Corsicans" or "Sarkozians"

(or neither: just business and/or family)? :shrug:

Big money corrupts everything. I know.

[Iggo]

3. cAN WE GO TO WAR WITH eYE-RAN NOW?

pRETTY pLEASE?

[valerief]

5. Maybe the privileged will all start bumping off each other and there'll be no one to pay the

mercenaries to beat up or kill innocent people anymore and we can restart humanity.

[nykym]

6. MAybe he had

something to do with the missing US/Iraqi billions

[Motown_Johnny]

8. 3 in the neck?

Who shoots people in the neck 3 times?


Couldn't you put one in his head?


I guess I would be a crappy assassin since I just can't wrap my head around this.