Armed men opened occurrence astatine a wedding enactment successful southeastern France aboriginal Sunday, sidesplitting the bride and wounding 3 others, said a root adjacent to the investigation.
The onslaught successful the colony of Goult occurred astir 4:30 am.
According to archetypal information, the bride and groom were leaving the enactment erstwhile they were confronted by masked assailants who opened fire, the root adjacent to the probe added.
The bride died and 1 of the attackers was killed, tally implicit by the bride and groom's car arsenic they tried to escape, the root said.
A large-scale cognition involving astir 100 constabulary has been launched to find those liable for the shooting, according to the source.
The 3 injured radical were the groom, his sister and a 13-year-old child, according to Le Figaro. Officials did not accidental if the kid was related to the couple, but a root adjacent to the lawsuit told the Sun the 13-year-old was the newlyweds' son.
A pedestrian walks successful a thoroughfare of the municipality wherever a fatal shooting took spot during a wedding enactment successful Goult, successful the confederate French section of Vaucluse, connected June 22, 2025.
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The Avignon prosecutor's bureau has opened an probe for "murder and attempted execution by an organized gang," Le Figaro reported.
Investigators are looking into whether the shooting had to bash with a imaginable settling of scores.
"I deliberation it was targeted," the town's mayor, Didier Perello, told reporters, according to Le Figaro.
Goult is located successful southeast France, astir 55 miles northbound of of Marseille, a larboard metropolis that has been precocious shaken by drug-related violence. In 2022, Goult had a population of conscionable implicit 1,000 people.
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