09:45 a.m.: Update on the latest information on the giant brawl in Poitiers – A shooting broke out during the night from Thursday to Friday in front of a restaurant in Poitiers (west of France) during which five people were seriously injured, announced the French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who linked these shootings to drug trafficking. Among the victims is a 15-year-old teenager, who is between life and death, according to a police source.
“It ended with a fight between rival gangs. The prefect tells me about 400 to 600 people involved, indicates the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau., on BFM TV. Drug trafficking no longer has limits,” he adds, assuring that this incident is linked to drug trafficking. “Police reinforcements will be deployed today,” said the prefect of Vienne on the social network X.
According to information from Europe 1, three people in a vehicle targeted the terrace of a restaurant, seriously injuring five people. A 15-year-old minor, seriously injured in the head, is said to be between life and death. “Between 400 and 600 people” involved “It started with a shooting at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people. I am told of 400 to 600 people, depending on the count -rendering from the prefect”, detailed Bruno Retailleau.
The minister estimated that we were “at a tipping point”, while he had to go to Rennes where a five-year-old child is between life and death after being shot in the head last Saturday, in as part of a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.
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08h58: Five people were seriously injured in a shooting which took place in front of a restaurant in Poitiers (Vienna), announced the Minister of the Interior. The tragedy is believed to be linked to drug trafficking. “Several hundred people, between 400 and 600 are involved” in this shooting “which turned into a brawl,” explained Bruno Retailleau on BFMTV-RMC. One of the injured, a 15-year-old minor, is between life and death, according to a police source.
08h56: Between “400 and 600 people” are involved in the brawl which left five people injured in Poitiers last night, and which we were talking to you about in this live earlier, according to the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau. “Police reinforcements will be deployed,” the Vienne prefecture had warned on X.
08:44 a.m.: A shooting left five people injured during the night 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.
