Aged 15, he was hospitalized in a state of absolute emergency, his life prognosis being in jeopardy. According to the same source, two other teenagers were shot, one in a shoulder, the other in an ankle, and were treated by emergency services. Around ten 22 caliber shell casings were found on the ground by investigators.
The events took place in the Couronneries district, where reinforcements will be deployed during the day, said the prefect of Vienne in a message posted on the social network by firearm also but more lightly, presented themselves directly to the hospital – and “tensions between groups”.
Several hundred people involved in a brawl
“It started with a shooting at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people. I am told of 4 to 600 people, according to the prefect’s report”declared for his part the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, Friday morning on BFMTV/RMC, linking the shooting to drug trafficking.
According to the police source, 50 to 60 people engaged in scuffles were present on the scene when the police arrived, who then used three tear gas grenades to disperse them. Reinforcements from the gendarmerie intervened and calm was restored around 11:30 p.m.
During the night, the police intervened in a place close to the first events, where an individual seemed to be held by around ten others; taken from the crowd, the latter was heard by the investigators.
“The ‘narcoracailles’ no longer have limits”, exclaims the Minister of the Interior
The Minister of the Interior considered that we were “at a tipping point” in terms of drug trafficking, while he must go to Rennes on Friday where a five-year-old child is between life and death after being shot in the head last Saturday, as part of a settling of scores linked to to drug trafficking.
Bruno Retailleau judged on Friday that we were “at a tipping point” in the face of drug trafficking, after a bloody shooting in Poitiers where a 15-year-old teenager was between life and death, a week after a young boy was seriously injured by gunfire in Rennes where the minister is expected.
“The ‘narcoracailles’ no longer have limits (…) These shootings are not happening in South America, they are happening in Rennes, in Poitiers (…). We are at a tipping point “exclaimed the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV/RMC.
He argued that we now have “the choice between general mobilization or the Mexicanization of the country”.
A Poitiers, “around 10:45 p.m.” Thursday evening, he related, “It started with a shooting in front of a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people”. He mentioned “4 to 600 people” having participated or witnessed this brawl, citing “a report from the prefect”.
According to the first elements of the investigation, there would be less than a hundred people involved, between “40 to 60”according to another police source.
3 injured by gunfire in Valencia
Three people were injured by bullets, including one seriously injured in the head, during a shooting outside a nightclub near Valence, on the night of Thursday to Friday, we learned from a police source.
The shooting, which is believed to be linked to drug trafficking, broke out around 2:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a nightclub in Saint-Péray (Ardèche), west of Valence, according to this source.
Around fifteen firefighters intervened and treated three injured people aged 22 to 24, Valence emergency services said.
One of the injured, a young man of 22, was seriously injured by a bullet in the head and transported in absolute emergency to the Valencia hospital center. His vital prognosis is in jeopardy, according to the police source.
The other two, more lightly affected, are a 24-year-old woman, hit in one leg, and a 22-year-old man who received shrapnel, according to France Bleu Drôme Ardèche.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the perpetrator of the shots was dressed in black and had his face hidden under a hood. He fired a handgun before fleeing.
A 9mm caliber bullet hole was found on a vehicle.
The nightclub organized a “Halloween party” on Thursday evening, from 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., which was attended by several hundred people.
They were confined peacefully inside the establishment during the intervention of the security forces, according to the police source.
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