The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond'huy, expresses “his anger” after the remarks of the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and asked him to “restore the truth”after the shooting which broke out on the night of Thursday October 31 to Friday November 1 and which left one dead and four injured. She was the guest of France Bleu Poitou on Monday November 4.
The Minister of the Interior first explained that a brawl had mobilized “400 to 600 people”while “40 to 60 people” were present on site, according to a police source. “The minister made a mistake and when we speak publicly and even more so the word of a government, we must be extremely careful about the information we rely on”tackles the mayor of Poitiers. According to her, “the event was tragic enough in itself, there was no need to add to it with fights, gangs and that in no way corresponded to the reality of the neighborhood, to the reality of our city”.
This false information was used to “instrumentalization of the image of a neighborhood and the image of our city, in the service of an alarmist, populist discourse, and this is extremely serious”adds the chosen one. The mayor of Poitiers also met the family of Anis, the 15-year-old teenager killed in the shooting, “very marked by the national media treatment of the affair and who is afraid that the memory of her child will be tarnished”. “A young person, because he lives in a neighborhood, is necessarily guilty, regrets the elected official. This is absolutely not the case, he had done nothing, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time”. The four other injured young people are “left the hospital, but there are the physical injuries and then the psychological injuries that will have to be accompanied in the coming days, in the coming weeks”she predicts.
Léonore Moncond'huy “hopes that the minister will refute and correct the comments he made on the morning of the shooting, that he will reestablish the truth”. The words of the Minister of the Interior maintained “unacceptable amalgamations” Who “contribute in fact to fueling the amalgams between the youth of the neighborhoods as a whole and the traffickers. This is unacceptable”, adds the city councilor. Léonore Moncond'huy “remain cautious about the minister’s sources”“nevertheless it is obvious that during the entire sequence, “It has fueled an extremely security policy discourse that is based on fear, to scare people,” she laments.
According to the Minister of the Interior, the level of drug trafficking has reached “a tipping point”. Without a general mobilization of the State and society, it will be “the Mexicanization of the country”he warned. “Mexicanisation of society, this refers to a gangrenous society, where there is no longer a rule of law, with corrupt local elected officials, corrupt administration, which in no way corresponds to what we know in Poitiers”continues the mayor.
Finally, the mayor of Poitiers announced the reopening in the coming weeks of the Couronneries police station, the district where the shooting took place: “I have received confirmation from the prefect that the work will begin in the coming weeks”.
