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2015 Roye shooting

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The 2015 Roye shooting took place at 4.30 pm in a Roma camp in Roye (Somme, Picardy, France) on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 and saw the death of 4 people in a travellers’ camp; a policeman and three people from the same family (a six-month-old baby, his mother and his father). The suspect also seriously wounded a three-year-old child, before police shot and injured him as they carried out an arrest. The injured were all taken to the Amiens University Hospital by helicopter. The gunman was supposedly a resident of the camp. Alcohol may have triggered the unexpected outbreak of violence. The motive of the shooting remains unclear. However, police sources say that this is a most likely criminal matter which is not connected to terrorism.

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