The teenager seriously injured during a shooting in Poitiers has died

The 15-year-old teenager, seriously injured by a gunshot to the head during a shooting Thursday evening in Poitiers, died Saturday, November 2 at midday, the Poitiers public prosecutor, Cyril Lacombe, announced to the press. .

The victim was hospitalized in a state of absolute emergency, between life and death. Four other minors aged 15 and 16 were injured by shots fired in front of a restaurant in a district of the city. A suspect is being sought by investigators in this case linked to drug trafficking according to the authorities.

During a search of a home he allegedly occupied, seven rounds of ammunition of the same caliber as the 11 found at the scene of the shooting, as well as “partial elements of a disassembled weapon”were seized according to the prosecution.

The events took place in the Couronneries district, classified as a priority for city policy (QPV).

According to the prefect of Vienne, this district is home to “two or three deal points which are important and mobilize the national police a lot on a daily basis” but stay “relatively calm” : “It is not held by the dealers even if there can be tensions”underlined Jean-Marie Girier on Friday.

Scuffles took place Thursday evening after the incident, involving a few dozen people, according to the police and the prosecution, while some were accused by others of knowing the shooter.

“Martial Discourses”

In a morning interview on BFM-TV/RMC on Friday, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, sowed confusion by falsely asserting that the shooting had been followed by a “brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people”, “400 to 600 people”, according to “a report from the prefect”.

The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, deplored Friday “an unprecedented episode” in the history of this town of around 90,000 inhabitants, which according to her “testifies to a fairly serious evolution of society”calling for more security resources on the ground.

The councilor also deplores “the gap between the government’s martial speeches and the reality of the means available on the ground”. She points to the police station in Coimbra Square as proof, which was burned during the urban riots of 2023 and still stands today in its charred state. The work, the start of which was delayed, according to the prefecture, by the time necessary for diagnostics and the award of public contracts, must start this month.