16-year-old seriously injured in the street
A 16-year-old boy was seriously injured by a bullet this Thursday evening in Avignon (Vaucluse) in the Rocade district. The emergency services were called shortly before 11 p.m. after shots were fired in the rue de la Vénus-d’Arles. The police are also directed to the scene.
When they arrived, the victim was taken care of by a resident who drove him to the city hospital. The latter, who is unknown to the police, had been shot in the left arm, indicates a source close to the investigation. The projectile would have ricocheted, also blessing him in the abdomen. Despite his serious condition, this boy’s life is not in danger.
Conscious, he was claimed to have been attacked by a group of individuals in the street. “A man allegedly shot him multiple times with a pistol according to his account”, says this source. The authors then fled in a car and a Yamaha TMax type scooter according to the first elements. The motivations of the attackers remain unknown.
During the observations on the spot, the police would not have discovered any case on the ground. The investigation was handed over to the federal police.