A restaurant was attacked with a firearm in Poitiers on Thursday afternoon, October 31, around 10 p.m., and this “It ended with a fight between rival gangs. (…) with all kinds of weaponsdeclared on Friday the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, informed of this ” event ” tonight. Citing a report from the prefect, the minister added on BFM-TV/RMC that between “400 and 600 people” would be involved, without knowing precisely whether this estimate includes potential spectators.
The police intervened around 10:45 p.m. and found the first injured person on the ground, shot in the head. At the age of 15 he was hospitalized in a state of absolute emergency, endangering his life prognosis. According to the same source, two other teenagers were also injured, one in a shoulder and the other in an ankle, and were treated by emergency services. Investigators found a dozen 22-caliber bullet casings on the ground.
The events took place in the Couronneries neighborhood, where reinforcements will be deployed during the day, indicated the prefect of Vienna in a message published on the 10th around 4:30 a.m., reporting five victims in total, both affected by firearms but more lightly, they showed up directly at the hospital – and “tensions between groups”.
“It started with a shooting in a restaurant and ended with a fight between rival gangs involving several hundred people. “From 4 to 600 people speak to me, according to the prefect’s report.”detailed Bruno Retailleau.
In the morning, the minister’s entourage clarified that the episode unfolded in several parts, initially involving several hundred people, just under a hundred at the time of the prefect’s arrival. The Minister’s environment then evokes a “punitive expedition” having between 50 and 60 people participated.
According to a police source cited by AFP, between 50 and 60 people involved in fights were at the scene when the police arrived, who then used three tear gas grenades to disperse them.
“We must not discover the problem”declared Mr. Retailleau, who considered that these shots were “linked to drug trafficking”. “It’s about settling scores”continuous. The minister estimated that we were “at a turning point”while he must travel to Rennes, where a five-year-old boy is between life and death after being shot in the head on Saturday, as part of a reckoning linked to drug trafficking.
During the night, the police intervened in a place close to the first events, where an individual seemed to be held by a dozen others; Taken from the crowd, the latter was heard by investigators.
Three injured by gunshot in Valencia
In front of a nightclub in Saint-Péray (Ardèche), on the night of Thursday October 31 to Friday, three young people between 22 and 24 years old were also wounded by gunshots, according to a police source cited by AFP. These shootings, which would also be related to drug trafficking, according to the same source, broke out around 2:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the nightclub that was organizing a “Halloween party” on Thursday afternoon, from 10:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A.M
One of the injured, a 22-year-old young man, was seriously injured by a gunshot to the head and was rushed to the Valencia hospital. His vital prognosis is in danger, according to the police source. The other two, with lighter injuries, are a 24-year-old woman, wounded in the leg, and a 22-year-old man who received bullet fragments, according to France Bleu Drôme Ardèche. Fifteen firefighters intervened during the night to treat the injured.
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