Europe 1 with AFP 12:08 p.m., January 16, 2023

A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting on Saturday outside a church in north London.

This Saturday, a few minutes after a funeral ceremony which took place in a church in the north of the British capital, an individual fired into the crowd, seriously injuring a seven-year-old girl.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting at mourners outside a church in London on Saturday, injuring six including two children, police said on Monday.

The shots were fired from a moving car, according to the first elements of the investigation, after a mass in tribute to a mother and her daughter who died in November.

Mourners were gathering outside St Aloysius' Church in the borough of Euston (centre) after the ceremony when the shots were fired.

"A Huge Bang"

Among the six injured, a seven-year-old girl was still hospitalized Monday in serious but stable condition.

The man, who was arrested on Sunday, was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder.

The priest who celebrated the service, Father Jeremy Trood, explained that it was a mass in homage to Sara Sanchez, 20, and her mother Fresia Calderon, 50, who died at a month of age. interval in November, the first from leukemia and the second from thrombosis, on his return from a trip to Colombia.

More than 300 people attended the ceremony which had just ended when "a huge bang" sounded, the priest told the BBC.

"Doves were going to be released at the end of the service and I think people were coming out to see that," he continued.

"I remember the screams and screams, and people coming out of the church and coming back."

A gang story?

According to The Daily Telegraph, Fresia Calderon's ex-husband, Carlos Arturo Sanchez-Coronado, who was Sara Sanchez's father, was jailed in the UK in 2009 after being convicted of money laundering for a London drug gang linked to the notorious Colombian Cali Cartel.

This man then returned to South America, where he settled in Santiago, Chile, according to this newspaper.

He would have died last year at 56.

During raids on the gang, police seized millions of pounds in cash, cocaine and marijuana worth around one hundred million pounds (112.9 million euros).