A shooting, followed by a brawl, broke out on the evening of Thursday October 31 in the Couronneries district of Poitiers. At least five people were injured, including a 15-year-old boy who suffered a very serious head injury. The Minister of the Interior points to the responsibility of “narcoracailles”.
“Today, drug scum no longer has limits.” Guest of BFMTV-RMC this Friday, November 1, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau spoke of the shooting followed by a brawl that occurred the previous evening in Poitiers, in the Couronneries district. “Between 400 and 600 were involved” in this brawl, and at least five people were injured by bullets, including a 16-year-old teenager very seriously.
The preferred hypothesis is that of a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking, a police source explained to BFMTV. “It’s linked, I confirm it to you,” assured the minister on our antenna, referring to “a tipping point”.
“These shootings are not happening in South America, they are happening in Rennes, in Poitiers, in this western France once known for its tranquility. We are at a tipping point and the choice we have today is a choice between a general mobilization or the Mexicanization of the country,” he explained.
The tenant of Beauvau also announced his desire to make a “new law” around drug trafficking. “We can make it a great national cause,” he stressed again.
A “gangrene following the expansion of drug trafficking”
On “The youth of the victims and those involved is particularly striking and worrying,” she added.
On the same social network, MP Sacha Houlié, from the 2nd constituency of Vienne, considered that the events occurring in Poitiers are “symptomatic(s) of gangrene following the expansion of drug trafficking”.
He also mentions two texts, prepared with the former Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti, “one creating specialized jurisdictions and prosecutions against organized crime as well as a new offense”, “the other on the status repentants to break the law of silence.
The events took place around 10:45 p.m., in Coimbra Square, a place known for drug trafficking. The shots were fired at a restaurant in the square by people in a car, who then fled, BFMTV learned from a police source.
The situation then degenerated into a brawl between rival gangs, involving several hundred people at the most tense moment.
