The 12-year-old, wounded by rifle shooting, said he was picking blackberries and apples near the caravan of the man, who was arrested.

A 59-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in the Yvelines, after firing on children, with a rifle loaded with cartridge filled with small pellets. They assured that they were picking blackberries and apples near the caravan of the fifties, reports Friday Le Parisien . One of the children, aged 12, was hit in the back of the head and in the back, but his days are not in danger.

In custody for "attempted homicide"

"It is known law enforcement to be a nice gentleman a little simple," said a source close to the record in the newspaper. In custody for "attempted homicide", he immediately confided that "he had made a stupidity," says a source in Paris. He would have acted in this way to answer the children who, according to this source, "would have killed him three hens with stones" in one week.