Overview

• At around 4 a.m. on June 22, four masked assailants opened fire on the bride and groom’s car outside a Goult reception, killing the bride and wounding three guests.
• The second fatality was one of the gunmen, whose death authorities say resulted either from return fire by the victim’s friends or from being struck by the couple’s vehicle.
• A separate shooting at around 6:30 a.m. in Avignone left a 20-year-old man dead and two others hospitalized, though investigators have not confirmed a link between the incidents.
• Prosecutors in Avignone and the Marseille gendarmerie are treating the Goult attack as a possible vendetta and have assigned roughly 30 investigators to the case.
• Officials report that 28 guests were still inside the wedding hall at the time of the ambush, underscoring concerns about security at public celebrations in the Vaucluse region.