The events took place around 8 p.m. Tuesday evening in this priority neighborhood, where shootings have already taken place since the start of the year.
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A shooting left five people lightly injured on Tuesday April 16, around 8 p.m., in the popular Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon district of Nîmes (Gard), franceinfo learned from a police source. The five lightly injured people were treated with no life-threatening injuries. According to this police source, several perpetrators fled. The public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, specifies that none of the injured, hit in the lower limbs, presented a vital injury.
This is not the first time that shots have been exchanged in the Chemin-Bas district of Avignon since the start of the year. Last March, two people had already been injured by bullets in the same neighborhood, the perpetrators also fled.
On February 20, a man was killed in a shooting in front of his son near a deal point. A few days before, shots had been fired near a school, forcing students to hunker down.
