Their happy day turned into a nightmare. One person was killed and four others injured in a shooting during a wedding in Thionville (Moselle) on the night of Saturday to Sunday, around 1 a.m., we learned from a police source. Two of the injured are between life and death, according to this source. The perpetrators of the shooting, several armed and hooded men, fled.
According to The Republican Lorrainethe wedding brought together a hundred people in the hall of the Eden Palace. The Lorraine daily specifies that this Sunday morning, the judicial police were still carrying out the observations and had found numerous cartridge cases left on the ground by the heavily armed attackers.
A settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking?
“It was during a wedding. A group of individuals, around a quarter past one in the morning, went out to smoke in front of the room and then three heavily armed guys arrived and opened fire several dozen times in their direction,” he said. reported a police source. The attackers arrived in a 4X4, “probably BMW”, according to the same source. Investigators still do not know the origin of the vehicle, particularly whether it came from Germany or Luxembourg, whose borders are around fifteen kilometers away.
“Very clearly we are moving towards a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking,” said this source. “The wedding was not targeted as such, it was people who were at the wedding.” On site Sunday morning, AFP reporters were able to see police officers busy taking samples in a car. At least three bullet holes are visible on a glass door giving access to the large reception room.
