He argued that we now had “the choice between general mobilization or the ‘Mexicanization’ of the country.”
In Poitiers, “around 10:45 p.m.” Thursday evening, he said, “it started with a shooting in front of a restaurant and it 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 were less than a hundred people involved, between “40 to 60”, indicated a police source.
“During the emergency intervention, several hundred people were around and a brawl began, with some young people pointing out others as potentially close to the alleged perpetrator,” the prefect of the police subsequently clarified on BFMTV. Vienna Jean-Marie Girier.
During this shooting, five people were injured, several seriously. According to a police source, a 15-year-old teenager was shot in the head and was between life and death. Two 16-year-olds are also among those seriously injured, according to another police source.
The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, spoke of “an unprecedented episode” in the history of this city of around 90,000 inhabitants, which “testifies to a fairly serious evolution in society”.
“Breaking the ecosystem”
Far from Poitiers, near Valence, a man in his twenties was also between life and death after being shot in the head during the night from Thursday to Friday during a shooting in front of a nightclub. Facts linked to drug trafficking, according to the police.
These events occurred a week after a five-year-old child was also shot in the head, in Pacé, near Rennes. He is still between life and death, the minister said on Friday. “The investigation is progressing,” he added, promising reinforcements “as long as it takes.”
The boy was in his father’s car trying to flee from drug dealers.
Bruno Retailleau must go to Rennes in the afternoon, in the Maurepas district, the scene of several settling of scores. He planned to meet police officers and then elected officials at the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture.
Since his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, Mr. Retailleau has called for the fight against drug trafficking to become “a national cause”.
He wants a mobilization against drug trafficking like what was done against terrorism.
When he was president of the LR senators, he was at the origin of the creation of the commission of inquiry into drug trafficking.
Since then, he has wanted the government to take up proposals from this senatorial commission of inquiry, such as the creation of a repentant statute or that of a dedicated national prosecutor’s office.
“We are going to set up a +task force+ to break the ecosystem” of drug trafficking, he said on Friday, emphasizing the importance of a “global strategy” to try to stem the phenomenon.
Drug trafficking generates a turnover of three to six billion euros in France, according to estimates by the senatorial commission of inquiry.
Next Friday, Bruno Retailleau must go with his colleague from Justice Didier Migaud to Marseille where the settling of scores between drug traffickers is particularly murderous and sordid, with the involvement of young people aged 14-15 as hired killers.
The two ministers must announce several measures together.
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