Two other victims aged 16, with more minor injuries to the scalp and one foot, presented themselves directly to the hospital. Around ten 22 caliber shell casings were found by investigators, according to the same source.
The events took place in the Couronneries district, classified as a priority for city policy (QPV), where reinforcements of mobile forces will be deployed by Friday evening, said the prefect of Vienne, reporting “tensions between groups” after the fact.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, spoke on BFMTV/RMC of “a brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people” but according to a police source, the scuffles only involved “50 to 60 people”. dispersed by the police using three tear gas grenades. Reinforcements from the gendarmerie intervened and calm was restored around 11:30 p.m.
“During the emergency intervention, several hundred people were nearby and a brawl began, with some young people pointing out others as potentially close to the alleged perpetrator,” prefect Jean-Marie Girier subsequently clarified. on the same channel.
During the night, after the report of a potential kidnapping, the police intervened in a place close to the first events, where one person seemed to be held by around ten others. Extracted from the crowd, the latter was heard by the investigators. A long gun and a 22 caliber handgun were seized during the search of an apartment.
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The public prosecutor in Poitiers, Cyril Lacombe, must speak on the case around 5 p.m. in court.
The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, spoke of “an unprecedented episode” in the history of this city of around 90,000 inhabitants, which “testifies to a fairly serious evolution in society”.
According to the prefect, the district concerned, where around 10,000 inhabitants live, is home to “two or three deal points which are important and mobilize the national police a lot on a daily basis” but it remains “relatively calm”: “it is not held by dealers even if there can be tensions,” said Mr. Girier, calling on families “not to leave minors in the street in the evening.”
The mayor of the city, who went to Couronneries on Friday morning, stressed that the district had suffered greatly from urban violence in the summer of 2023 after the death of young Nahel in the Paris region. Its shopping center had been burned down in particular.
“We are next to the police station which has not yet reopened,” Ms. Moncond’huy stressed to the press, pleading for a strengthening of security resources on the ground.
