Businessman shot in Nice turned out to be Russian citizen

Identification has revealed that the businessman shot in Nice was a citizen of Russia, Tengrinews.kz reports citing Kazakhstan Consul in France Sarsen Bakuyev. “56-year-old Abdulla Arsa Nukayev was born in Zhambyl oblast (Kazakhstan), but had a Russian citizenship. The case has been transferred to the Embassy of Russia in France. The previous information about the businessman being a Kazakhstan citizen turned out to be wrong,” said Bakuyev. According to the previous information of the French police, the 56-year-old was Kazakhstan citizen who lived in Nice, but spent most of his time on business trips. The tragedy happened in Nice when the owner and his guests had a fight in one of the houses at François-Grosso boulevard. Policemen saw a man rushing to leave the house with two kids. During the arrest the man was identified as Anton Sarkisian, 35, a citizen of Georgia. Later the man told the police, that he shot two people: a citizen of Armenia and a citizen of Kazakhstan.