Four soldiers in civilian clothes from Operation Sentinel were targeted by gunfire early Saturday morning after a nightclub outing, one of them being shot in the arm, we learned from the prosecution and Besançon police.
The four young men were walking back to their garrison around 5 a.m. when a car passed them and stopped "20-30 meters in front of them", according to the police.
One of the passengers then got out of the vehicle and fired three times in their direction with a handgun before restarting, according to the daily l'Est Républicain which revealed the facts.
One of the soldiers was shot in the arm, but his vital prognosis is not engaged, said a police officer.
During a leave
Deployed in Besançon since the beginning of the week as part of Operation Sentinel, the four soldiers, aged around twenty, had taken advantage of a leave to spend an evening at a disco.
“The evening went well, according to them.
We do not know why the soldiers were targeted,” the police said.
An investigation was entrusted to the departmental security.
The facts occurred in a dimly lit area, without video surveillance, about 300 meters from the nightclub.
“The establishment is known for difficulties at the exit, in particular for taking part of customers by people outside the nightclub”, indicated the parquet floor of Besançon.
"There is no evidence to say that it was their military status that made them targeted," added the same source.
