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
End of a restless evening in Poitiers. According to France Bleu Poitou, a shooting broke out shortly after 10:30 p.m. this Friday in the Couronneries neighborhoods.
“There are currently five injured, several of them serious and even very serious.he indicated on BFMTV/RMC. It started with a shooting at a restaurant and ended with a brawl between rival gangs that involved several hundred people. The prefect speaks of between 400 and 600 people.”
A shooting at Couronneries in Poitiers left 5 injured last night. Tensions between groups broke out requiring the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie. The Prefect went there. Police reinforcements will be deployed today. pic.twitter.com/ebwVuRBho4
— Prefect of Vienne (@Prefet86)
Link to drug trafficking
One of the injured, a 15-year-old minor, is between life and death, according to a police source. The Minister of the Interior mentioned a link with the “drug trafficking”.
“I think we are at a tipping point”he declared. “Today, the narco-scum no longer have limits, he continued. It doesn't happen in South America but in Rennes, in Poitiers, in this Western France that I know well and which was once renowned for its tranquility. The choice we have today is a choice between general mobilization or the Mexicanization of the country.”
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