The national holiday of July 14 turned tragic on July 14, 2022 in Cholet in Maine-et-Loire. The death toll is two, a 7-year-old boy and his 24-year-old sister. They were killed during a “shooting incident“Occurred during the fireworks which also left seven injured, including one seriously according to a latest report. The investigation, opened for manslaughter, will have to determine the precise circumstances of the accident, which occurred shortly after 11 p.m. “on stabilized ground near the Cholet stadium“, specified the public prosecutor of Angers, Eric Bouillard, joined by AFP on the night of Thursday to Friday. Asked during the night about the circumstances of the accident, the prosecutor mentioned a “shooting incident”, without further details. “It’s way too earlyto say more, he added.
The brother and sister were watching the fireworks with other family members and were “about fifty meters from the launch pad“During the accident. A man in his thirties, seriously injured, was hospitalized in absolute emergency, said the firefighters on Friday morning. Six other spectators, including the parents of the two victims, were slightly injured. They were hospitalized in relative emergency, according to the departmental fire and rescue service (Sdis) of Maine-et-Loire.
Despite the incident, the fireworks were completed and the crowd dispersed, he said. About 70 firefighters were dispatched to the scene, according to the western mail. The mayor of Cholet Gilles Bourdouleix, explained that members of the security would “recommended to people“located near the scene of the accident”to walk away“. The municipality is working “For years” – 1994 according to BFMTV – with the pyrotechnician in charge of the fireworks, he added, and “it’s the first time“that such a tragedy occurs during the July 14 festivities in Cholet according to him.”It’s a terrible tragedy“, he commented, joined by AFP. The investigation was entrusted to the Departmental Security of Maine-et-Loire and to the police station of Cholet.
A spectator who witnessed the tragedy, who came to watch the fireworks with his 8 and 13-year-old daughters, testified to AFP. Laurent Picard (Tazman on the social network) posted a video of the show that went wrong on Facebook. Spectacular images then suddenly frightening.