Several hurt in attack on video set of French rapper Booba
22 August 2019 |
10:05 am
Shots were fired and several people injured overnight as a group of assailants armed with guns and baseball bats stormed the set of a music video by controversial French rapper Booba, a police source told AFP Wednesday.
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