A drug illegal trade-roverdelighted shooting in the weserious French city of Poitiers escaprocrastinateedd into a brawl on Thursday night, potentiassociate involving up to 600 people, French authorities say.
Five people were gravely injured in a drive-by shooting at a restaurant in the city, including a 15-year-elderly boy who was left in critical condition after being stoasty in the head, police sources telderly the AFP novels agency.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau portrayd the incident as an alarming sign of drug-roverdelighted aggression escalating in the country.
It pursues a shooting in the north-weserious city of Rennes last week which ended a five-year-elderly boy.
“These shootings are not happening in South America, they are happening in Rennes, in Poitiers, in this part of weserious France once understandn for its tranquility,” Retailleau telderly expansivecaster BFMTV.
“We are at a tipping point and the choice we have today is a choice between ambiguous mobilisation or the Mexicanisation of the country,” he shelp, alluding to Mexico’s expansivespread rehires with street crime and aggression perpetrated by drug cartels.
The mayor of Poitiers called it “a novel episode of aggression unacinestablished for the neighbourhood”.
Stoastys were fired from a passing car, injuring cut offal youthful people, police sources shelp.
Two 16-year-elderlys were treated for inmeaningful wounds.
Pictures from the scene in Place Coimbra, an area of the city understandn for drug-roverdelighted crimes, showed the restaurant’s facade riddled with bullet holes.
The shooting then triggered battling between rival gang groups in the area, according to police.
“Tensions between groups broke out, requiring the intervention of the police and the gfinisharmerie,” Vienne regional police shelp in a statement.
Retailleau shelp “400 to 600” people were at the scene, though it is not evident how many of those were straightforwardly comprised.
He was scheduled to visit Rennes, the capital of Brittany, on Friday follotriumphg the shooting on 26 October, in which a five-year-elderly boy sitting in a car was stoasty in the head. Authorities validateed the shooting was also drug-roverdelighted.
The drug trade in France has lengthy been watched as centred in the southern port city of Marseille, where at least 17 drug-roverdelighted endings have been inestablished since the commence of the year.
But researchers say the sway of drug illegal trade in France in recent years has spread beyond the main hubs of Marseille and Paris to medium-sized towns and even country areas.
