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A 75-year-old man was being held under arrest on Monday in France over a murder on a well-known nudist beach outside the southeastern city of Lyon, prosecutors said.
The victim, aged 46, was killed on Saturday at the La Mama beach on a lake in the Lyon suburb of Miribel, regional prosecutors said.
The 75-year-old is suspected of shooting the victim multiple times in the bushes nearby following a dispute that arose after the younger man allegedly exposed himself in front of a woman, they added.
The regional daily Le Progres said that the suspect is a member of a shooting club and legally possesses a calibre 22 rifle. The victim was known to the police, it said.
The Le Parisien daily added that according to its information the victim had been a cause of trouble on the beach all Saturday morning with tensions rising to a peak when he began to masturbate in front of a woman.
An altercation ensued at which point the septuagenarian reached for his gun.
Le Progres said that at the peak of the summer season the beach — well known to Lyon’s inhabitants — had resumed its normal rhythm on Sunday.
Participants in the World Naked Bike Ride France arrived even as police carried out investigations and images showed naked bathers enjoying the hot weather.