Editorial with AFP
01/11/2024 at 10:05Updated on 01/11/2024 at 6:46 p.m.
During the night from Thursday to Friday in front of a restaurant in Poitiers, a shooting broke out linked to drug trafficking, according to the Minister of the Interior. “Several hundred people” would have witnessed or participated in these clashes, assures Bruno Retailleau. A figure reduced to around sixty by a police source.
A shooting broke out during the night from Thursday to Friday in front of a restaurant in Poitiers during which five people were seriously injured, announced Bruno Retailleau, who linked these shootings to drug trafficking.
The Minister of the Interior added on BFMTV / RMC that “several hundred people” had witnessed or participated in this shooting. But, according to the first elements of the investigation, there were less than a hundred people involved, between “40 to 60”, said a police source.
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One of the injured, aged 15, is between life and death. He was shot in the head, the same source said, adding that two other teenagers, both aged 16, were among those seriously injured.
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It started with a shooting at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs
Bruno Retailleau
The events took place in the Couronneries district, said the prefect of Vienne in a message posted on the social network X. Reinforcements will be “deployed” on Friday, wrote the prefect.
“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 4 to 600 people, according to the prefect’s report,” detailed Bruno Retailleau.
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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.
