Shooting at a rave party in Switzerland: an Italian girl dead, two others injured

According to what we learn from informed sources, the 22-year-old girl who died in the shooting during a rave party in Switzerland is Italian. Among the five injured people, aged between 24 and 27, there were also two Italians. The others are all Swiss. The Farnesina Crisis Unit is following the case with the embassy in Bern and the consulate general in Basel. The woman died on the spot due to her injuries, the city police spokesperson told the media from the Swiss news agency Keystone-ATS.

Police operations are underway in Switzerland to identify the perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting which occurred during the night around 2.30am at the end of a rave party at the Schachen racecourse in Aarau. Aargau cantonal police said they had "opened an investigation" and urged the public to "stay away from the area", local media reported. The reasons and exact circumstances of the shooting are not yet known and the police have asked anyone with video recordings or photos to send them to the Instagram account of the Aargau cantonal police.

The organizers of the rave in Aarau, Switzerland, where a shooting left a young Italian woman dead and five injured, expressed their shock in a statement published on the website. The message expresses sympathy for the victims and their families. “We are shocked, devastated and saddened,” we read on the website.aarauer-rave.ch. “This cowardly attack against rave attendees in Aarau broke our hearts,” the organizers continued. «A rave should always be a place of joy and love. Never a place where people are killed, injured and thrown into fear,” they say. “Our thoughts go out to the victims, their families and their friends.” The message - signed by «Livio, Alex, Maik and Olivier» - expresses gratitude to the police and emergency services. As organizers, “we will do everything we can” to support the authorities in their investigations, he adds. The message ends with the image of a broken heart.

The shooting site, "Aarau Rave VOL. 7," could seat up to about 3,500 people, according to its website. The number of people present at the time of the shooting is currently unknown. Testimonies from those who were present are multiplying on social media, in particular those of the artists who were performing in Aarau that evening. Many express their shock, writes RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse Romande) on its website. Several speak of the loss of a "friend", suggesting that the victim could belong to the circle of organizers or artists.