A man who was turned away from a nightclub in the French city of Lille returned with a gun and opened fire indiscriminately outside the building yesterday, killing two people and wounding six others, police said.
The shooting will lead to renewed debate on France’s gun laws, which were brought into public focus by the killing of seven people in March by an Islamist gunman in Toulouse.
The Lille gunman killed a nightclub employee and a customer, both in their mid-20s, at about 3am before fleeing, said deputy police chief Hervé Malherbe.
“The bouncer who knew the man turned him back. The man came back with a heavy calibre gun, possibly a Kalashnikov, and started shooting,” he said. Six people were injured, but none of their lives are in danger. – Reuters