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Shooting in : the five seriously injured are teenagers aged 15 to 16

LThe police intervened around 10:45 p.m. after gunfire in front of a restaurant in a working-class area of ​​the city, finding the first person injured on the ground, shot in the head.

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 aged 16 in a shoulder, the other aged 15 in an ankle. They were taken care of by emergency services.

Two other victims aged 16, with more minor injuries to the scalp and one foot, presented themselves directly to the hospital. Around ten 22 caliber shell casings were found by investigators, according to the same source.

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, spoke on BFMTV/RMC of “a brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people” but according to a police source, the scuffles only involved “50 to 60 people”, dispersed by the police using three tear gas grenades. Reinforcements from the gendarmerie intervened and calm was restored around 11:30 p.m.


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