A shooting took place around 4 p.m. in the parking lot of the KFC in Vénissieux (Lyon Metropolis). Two people were injured and were treated in absolute emergency. The perpetrator(s) fled and have not yet been identified.
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Sunday January 5, 2025, around 4 p.m., two young men in their twenties were seriously injured by bullets in the parking lot of a KFC in Vénissieux, in the southern suburbs of Lyon.
The victims were the target of shots from different types of weapons, mainly handguns, and were hit in the head and thorax.. Their vital prognosis is engaged.
The two men were quickly transported in absolute emergency to the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon.. The exact circumstances of the attack remain to be determined.
According to a police source, the perpetrators fled in a vehicle before the arrival of the police.. At the beginning of the evening, theThe police were still on site for the purposes of their investigation.
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A shooting took place around 4 p.m. in the parking lot of the KFC in Vénissieux (Lyon Metropolis). Two people were injured and were treated in absolute emergency. The perpetrator(s) fled and have not yet been identified.
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Contacted by France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office did not respond to our requests.
This incident is part of a series of violent events involving firearms which affected the Lyon metropolitan area in December, particularly in the municipalities of Vénissieux and Villeurbanne..
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