Tottenham defender Serge Aurier’s brother is shot dead at 5am outside a nightclub in Toulouse

Tottenham star Serge Aurier’s brother, Christopher, was shot dead at 5am this morning and his killer is still on the run. 

Christopher Aurier, 26, was fatally wounded in the early hours after being shot in Toulouse outside a nightclub and he was pronounced dead in hospital, according to Le Point and Europe 1.

The Ivorian right back’s brother was ‘known to police for small crimes’, local media sources said. In 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of attacking a prostitute in Lille in northern France.

Local residents called the police after finding a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his stomach outside Kin’s nightclub.

Serge Aurier’s brother has reportedly been shot dead in Toulouse outside a nightclub

Christopher Aurier, 26, was reportedly found in the street in Toulouse with a gunshot wound

Pictured: Kin’s nightclub in the Thibaud area of Toulouse, where Christopher Aurier was reportedly shot

Christopher Aurier of Ivory Coast in action during the International Friendly match between Belgium and Ivory Coast at The King Baudouin Stadium on March 5, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium

The victim’s brother, Serge, had played in Tottenham’s 2-1 north London derby win over Arsenal only hours earlier. 

The French authorities have launched an investigation with the perpetrator still at large after fleeing the scene.

A Tottenham statement read: ‘The Club is deeply saddened to confirm media reports that Serge Aurier’s brother passed away in the early hours of this morning.

‘Everybody at the Club sends their sincerest condolences to Serge and his family. Our thoughts are with them all.’ 

Christopher was also a footballer, in the French fifth division with Toulouse Rodeo. He had a trial with Championship side Brentford back in 2011 but was not signed.

Like Serge, he came through the ranks at RC Lens but did not make the breakthrough to the highest level.

Serge Aurier (right) played for Tottenham in their 2-1 win over Arsenal in Sunday’s derby

In 2017 Lille cops arrested him after a 20-year-old local sex worker claimed two men had stolen her phone and credit card in December of the previous year.

The two men were reported to have threatened the woman in her flat with a fake handgun and tear-gassed her when she refused to hand over money.

Of his trial at Brentford, Christopher said in 2017: ‘Brentford were in League One at the time. Everything went well with my trial, but I could not speak English at the time.

‘The coach [Uwe Rosler] told me: “It’s a shame you can’t understand my instructions. I’d have signed you otherwise.”‘

Serge, 27, progressed at Lens before signing for Toulouse. The Ivory Coast international then secured his big move to Paris Saint-Germain. 

From there he signed for Tottenham in 2017 and his future at the club looked in doubt earlier this year after falling out of favour under Mauricio Pochettino. 

Christopher is understood to have been pronounced dead at University Hospital in Toulouse

But the right-back has found his way back into the team under Jose Mourinho and played the full 90 minutes of the north London derby on Sunday. 

Serge has recently found himself in trouble for breaching lockdown rules three times. 

He has won 62 caps for Ivory Coast and won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015. With PSG he was a two-time French league champion.