Four young people, aged 15 to 17, were injured this Saturday evening after a series of gunshots in the La Duchère district of Lyon, AFP learned from concordant sources.
The outcome is still uncertain. According to the firefighters, three of them were “wounded by bullet”, including one in the stomach, the fourth by “glass shards”. A police source contacted by AFP said that only a 16-year-old was hit by gunfire.
According to Lyon Mag, a fifth person was taken care of by the emergency services for injuries related to the explosion of a grenade.
A police brigade attacked in the same place
The facts, which occurred in undetermined circumstances, occurred in the middle of the evening in the perimeter of rue Andréï Sakharov, located in the 9th arrondissement, to the north-west of the city.
On October 25, in the same neighborhood, three police officers from the anti-crime brigade (BAC) were shot in a place known as a deal point. The shooting had led to a security operation on the spot the day after the events.
This new violence could revive the controversy. Because, when the police had been attacked in La Duchère, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the environmentalist mayor of the city, Grégory Doucet, had fought over the question of video surveillance and the number of cameras installed. in this neighbourhood.