Rennes, Poitiers, Valence… A dark week for France

Last week was a dark week for drug trafficking. Across France, from Rennes to Valence via Poitiers, four people were killed and around ten others injured in shootings and brawls linked to drug trafficking. Worse, this violence no longer spares medium-sized towns.

Tipping point

Thus, in Poitiers, a town of only 90,000 inhabitants, on October 31, it was 11 p.m. when a shooting broke out in front of a fast-food restaurant. No fewer than five teenagers were injured, one seriously. He died a few hours later. The next day, the Minister of the Interior assured him, the shootings were indeed linked to drug trafficking.

“We are at a tipping point, and this tipping point imposes choices on us. Either there is a general mobilization, or there is the Mexicanization of the country. This is the choice that we have before us “, insists the new tenant of Beauvau. The minister's tone is alarmist and for good reason: a few days earlier, in Rennes, a five-year-old child was seriously injured by gunfire, the collateral victim of a shooting, also linked to drugs.

Two shootings in 24 hours in Valencia

Bruno Retailleau was also traveling in the city on November 1st. But it doesn't stop there in the Breton city, since the day after the minister's visit, a 20-year-old man is stabbed, near a deal point in the lobby of a building.

Finally, near Valencia, the city experienced two shootings in less than 24 hours: the first took place on the night of October 31 in front of a nightclub, a 22-year-old rugby player was shot in the head. The next day, another young man was shot. He was known to the police for drug trafficking.