{"id":19537,"date":"2025-06-27T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19537\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:47:11","slug":"2-charged-with-murder-after-bride-shot-dead-groom-and-13-year-old-nephew-wounded-at-wedding-party-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19537\/","title":{"rendered":"2 charged with murder after bride shot dead, groom and 13-year-old nephew wounded at wedding party in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men have been charged with murder as part of a criminal gang after a 27-year-old bride was shot dead<\/a> at a wedding party in southeastern France, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Gunmen opened fire last Sunday at a wedding celebration in Goult, a hilltop village overlooking lavender fields, in what sources said might have been drug-related score settling.<\/p>\n

Four masked men shot at several guests, including the newlyweds and the bride’s 13-year-old nephew, in a car park outside the village hall, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said late Thursday.<\/p>\n

“The assailants opened fire, fatally wounding the bride, who was hit several times near the carotid artery,” Bessone said.<\/p>\n

“The shots also hit the groom, who had several wounds in the upper body,” he said, adding that the boy had a lung injury and was initially in critical condition.<\/p>\n

The groom’s sister was also hit in the shoulder.<\/p>\n

One of the attackers was killed. He was “shot in the back and head” and also “hit by a vehicle during the attack,” said the prosecutor.<\/p>\n

\"FRANCE-CRIME-POLICE<\/p>\n

A pedestrian walks in a street of the town where a fatal shooting took place during a wedding party in Goult, in the southern French department of Vaucluse, on June 22, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GABRIEL BOUYS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

His three accomplices fled on foot. Two of them were detained in a nearby town several hours later and the fourth is on the run.<\/p>\n

Le Figaro reported<\/a> that the suspects were also linked to a second shooting the same day in the nearby city of Avignon, where a man was shot dead and another injured near a shopping center.<\/p>\n

After 96 hours in police custody, the two suspects appeared before a magistrate on Thursday and were charged with murder and attempted murder as part of an organized gang. They have been remanded in custody.<\/p>\n

The Marseille public prosecutor did not specify their motives. But a source close to the case said the 25-year-old groom was known to police for drug and organized crime offenses.<\/p>\n

The violence might be linked to possible drug-related score-settling, said another source.<\/p>\n

As of 2022, Goult had a\u00a0population<\/a>\u00a0of just over 1,000 people. The village is located in southeast France, about 50 miles north of Marseille, a port city that has been shaken by\u00a0drug-related killings<\/a>\u00a0in recent years.<\/p>\n

The French government has recently vowed to intensify the fight against narcotics and drug-related crime.<\/p>\n

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