On Saturday evening in the no-go zone of Aubiers, just north of Bordeaux, a 16-year-old was shot and killed and four others wounded in a drive-by gang shooting. Five youths between the ages of 18-21 are in custody. The below article by Le Figaro includes a video of paramedics carrying one of the victims to an ambulance. The written article is translated by Fousesquawk.
Deadly shooting in Bordeaux: 5 young adults in custody for murder
Ages 18-21, they are suspected of having participated in a shooting with automatic arms which produced one death, an adolescent of 16 years of age, Saturday, January 2.
By Le Figaro with Agence France Presse
Posted three hours ago (Jan 4). Updated two hours ago
Caption below photo: A global view of the Aubiers quarter of Bordeaux, where a youth was killed Saturday evening. -Thibaud Moritz/Agence France Press
Around 10:50 pm, a group of youths, who were at a small square in the heart of Aubiers, a town of about 3,500 inhabitants north of Bordeaux, were the target of bursts of automatic arms fire from a vehicle passing through their area. After the zone was secured by police, firemen went to the aid of a 16-year-old adolescent seriously injured, who died shortly thereafter at the CHU of Bordeaux. Three adolescents from 13-16 years of age and a man of 35 years-of-age, also wounded, managed to flee by entering an apartment building. The adolescents were hospitalized at CHU, one of them suffering from a bullet under his heart, but is no longer believed in danger, another hit in the biceps and shoulder blade, a third in the knee. The 35-year-old man, with a calf wound, later went to a clinic.
Repeated incidents
The town of Aubiers had already been the scene of repeated incidents on New Year's Eve. Bus and tram stops had been destroyed, a post office set on fire, and mortar fireworks and projectiles thrown at responding police when they responded. The quarter is also associated with sporadical rivalries between youths from two other towns north of the city, a hypothesis which could explain the shooting of Saturday evening, according to a source close to the case.
According to the statement from the prosecutor's office on Monday, the investigation assigned to the Judicial Police "is progressing by the hour," with numerous witnesses appearing. "Technical examinations by scientific police are still in progress, and the results of the autopsy of the young victim will not be known until tomorrow (Tuesday)". The prosecutor's office also reported the "spread of a lot of unverified information" and stresses "that it is essential that this investigation can be followed under the best conditions," A selfie of five youths accused of being responsible for the shooting is circulating on social media.
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The below article from Sudouest France (not translated) has a video of the incident itself as videotaped by two residents from an adjacent apartment building (viewer warning).
Any further translations are pending.
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