Words that don't get through. The announcement by the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, of a “brawl between rival gangs” which would have opposed “hundreds of people”, after the fatal shooting which occurred in Poitiers (Vienne) Thursday evening in front of a kebab restaurant, aroused the anger of the city's mayor, Léonore Moncond'huy (Les ecologists).
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Invited this Monday morning on the France Bleu Poitou morning show, the elected official confirms that there was no such confrontation after the shooting. This event “is an extremely tragic episode in itself, but in addition false information was disseminated by the minister,” she accuses. At the microphone of RMC/BFMTV, Bruno Retailleau announced Friday morning that a brawl between rival gangs had “involved several hundred people”, evoking a report from the prefect which would have pointed out that between “400 and 600 people” would have been involved , while between 40 and 60 people were there, according to police sources.
“There was no need to add more”
“There has been an exploitation 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,” said Léonore Moncond’huy. There was no need to add more, but what's more, it undermines the credibility of the image of political, public speech, which we need to be reliable at this time. » The prefect of Vienne announced for his part, Friday, that “tensions between groups” had “erupted requiring the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie” and that “police reinforcements” would be deployed on Friday.
Expressing her “anger” after this announcement from the Minister of the Interior, Léonore Moncond'huy believes that Bruno Retailleau “made a mistake”. “When we speak for a government, we must be extremely careful about the information on which we rely, there was no need to add to it with brawls, gangs, which in no way correspond to the reality of the neighborhood, of our city. » Today, she asks “that the minister corrects the comments he made, that he reestablishes the truth”.
In the same vein, she also said she was “shocked” by the term “Mexicanization” used by the minister. “This brings back an image of a gangrenous society, which in no way corresponds to what we know of Poitiers. » If the councilor assures not to “minimize” the events occurring in his city, she believes that we should not “misname things”. »
The perpetrator of the shots still wanted
Asked about the investigation, the elected official recalled that the teenager who died from his injuries “had nothing to do with drug trafficking. » Anis, 15, “was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. » The four other victims “have been released from the hospital” and are “traumatized. » The Couronneries district, which celebrated Halloween on Thursday evening, was “full of people that evening”, explained the lawyer for the teenager's mother. The latter “told his mother that he was going to buy a sandwich before going home. And he was shot. »
The perpetrator of the shooting is still being sought. This is an “individual from outside” Poitiers, who would have been “rejected by the residents of the neighborhood. »
