the seriously injured 15-year-old minor died

A shooting linked to drug trafficking broke out on Thursday October 31 in Poitiers. Five young people were injured, one of them died.

The 15-year-old minor who was seriously injured by a gunshot to the head after a brawl and a shooting that occurred in Poitiers on Thursday has died, Poitiers public prosecutor Cyril Lacombe announced to the press this Saturday, November 2. He was hospitalized in an absolute emergency, with his life threatening.

“I assure the family and loved ones of Anis all my support, on behalf of the Municipal Council of Poitiers”, reacted during the day the mayor Les Écologues de Poitiers Léonore Moncond'huy, on her X account.

“The death of a young person, in such tragic circumstances, must fuel our determination to fight against all forms of violence, particularly linked to drug trafficking,” she said.

Thursday evening, five people were seriously injured in a shooting that occurred in front of a restaurant located in the Couronneries district of Poitiers, linked to drug trafficking, according to the authorities. A fight then broke out.

All the people injured are minors aged 15 or 16. An investigation had been opened, before the teenager's death, for attempted homicide.

“A tipping point” for Retailleau

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, said on Friday on BFMTV that this news item, coupled with that which occurred in Rennes, where a child was injured by bullets, was the sign of a “tipping point”. “The ‘narcoracailles’ no longer have limits,” he judged.

Since his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior, Bruno 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.

The mayor of the city's Ecologists also denounced a “new episode of unacceptable violence for the neighborhood and for the city”, in a press release on Friday.

During a search Friday morning in 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 dismantled weapon”, were seized by the investigators. A suspect “present in the city for several weeks” is being sought.