Five injured in a shooting in Poitiers, the prefecture announces police reinforcements

A shooting left five people injured on the night of Thursday, October 31, in Poitiers, in the Couronneries district. According to the Vienne prefecture, “tensions” broke out in the evening “between different groups”, which required the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie.

The prefect of Vienne, Jean-Marie Girier, immediately went to the site. State services announce that reinforcement police officers will be deployed during the day on Friday in this district.

This morning, no visible trace of this brawl and the shots fired, specifies France Bleu Poitou. The neighborhood was quiet, the streets empty and no police visible at daybreak.

Three young people injured by firearms, one very seriously, leaving a nightclub in Ardèche