A bus carrying musicians from the rap group PNL overturned on Sunday May 8 on the A11 motorway near Vair-sur-Loire (Loire-Atlantique), causing three minor injuries, we learned from concordant sources. .
The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. on the A11 motorway in the Paris-Nantes direction. According to a fire department statement, the bus was carrying ten people and was “alone in the ditch”. A photo shows him lying on his right side against an embankment. “Three men in their thirties were transported to the Ancenis hospital center in a light condition and seven other victims were left unharmed”the statement said.
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According to the Loire-Atlantique gendarmerie, which confirms information from Ouest-France, the bus registered in Germany was transporting musicians from the rap group PNL, which is due to perform on Sunday evening at the Zenith in Nantes. The concert was however maintained.
“It could be a problem related to the driver, of French nationality. An investigation is underway”, added the gendarmes. The right lane of the highway was cut for more than 2 hours. In total, forty firefighters and twenty machines were mobilized.
The tour linked to the album Two brotherseagerly awaited by NLP fans and postponed many times, started May 4 at the Zenith of Lille. Several dates are scheduled in several cities in France until May 28.
A daily photographer West France was also attacked by members of the group while taking photos, the newspaper announced on its website.
“Several passengers of the group fall on him, one of them enters his car and grabs a camera on the passenger seat. (…) The members of the group then asked to erase all the photos present on the storage cards. Then they took a picture of him.”adds the daily.
The direction of the publication of Ouest-France specifies that it “Strongly condemns this aggression and this attack on the right to inform” and announces that she is going “take this case to court”.