Nîmes experienced a particularly violent scene on Tuesday evening. A shooting there left four lightly injured and one more seriously, in an impoverished neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking, we learned from judicial sources close to the investigation.
The events occurred around 8 p.m., in the Chemin bas district of Avignon, when people in a vehicle opened fire on a group of young men at the foot of a building, according to a source close to investigation. Three of the members of the targeted group were hit by bullets and two by shrapnel.
Shooters on the run
The shooters, believed to be three in number, were able to flee in their car and a burned vehicle was found a little later in the town of Marguerittes, bordering Nîmes, according to a police source.
The public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, clarified that none of the injured, hit in the lower limbs, presented a vital injury and that there was no established link “as it stands” with the discovery. of the vehicle.