A 15-year-old teenager is between life and death after clashes which involved several hundred people this Thursday, October 31, according to the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
The city of Poitiers was shaken this Thursday, October 31 in the evening, by what the environmentalist mayor, Léonore Moncond'huy, described as a “new episode of unacceptable violence»: five people were seriously injured during a shooting in the Couronneries district. One of the injured, aged 15, is between life and death, according to a police source. He was shot in the head. Two other teenagers, both aged 16, were among those seriously injured.
«It started with a shooting at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs that involved several hundred people. I am told of 400 to 600 people, according to the prefect's report», Detailed the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, interviewed on BFMTV/RMC this Thursday morning. The facts, he explained, are linked to drug trafficking. The minister estimated that we were “at a tipping point», while he has to go to Rennes 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 drug trafficking.
The prefect of Vienne went to the site. He announced, on the social network X, the sending of reinforcements to the Couronneries district. In a press release, the mayor, Léonore Moncond'huy, called “the responsibility of each person to maintain peace.”
