Several people, including an 8-year-old child who was riding a bicycle, were injured by gunfire in a city in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon (Var), on Saturday evening, we learned from concordant sources. The facts occurred at the city Berthe, indicate these sources, in circumstances which remain still imprecise.
"The shooting took place around midnight, it was small lead fire which, as it stood, caused minor injuries to two people and possibly a third," said Bernard Marchal, public prosecutor of Toulon, AFP.
Four injured, no life prognosis involved
Among the injured, a forties was hit in the leg. "An 8-year-old child was also hit by a small lead behind his head while riding a bicycle," said the magistrate. A third person, a shocked adolescent, was also taken in charge by the emergency services, who for their part gave an assessment of 4 victims, including another man. None of the injured have their life prognosis engaged.
The suspects are two people who were seen on a scooter, helmeted. The investigation was entrusted to the Toulon judicial police.
The Berthe city, in La Seyne-sur-Mer, was in the past the scene of numerous shootings and settling of scores, the most spectacular of which dates back to September 2018 when two teenagers, including a former football player of the team Saint-Etienne reserve, had been killed.
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