a shootout between gangs leads to a fight with more than 400 people involved

Five people were injured serious in a shooting and a brawl related to the drug traffic that occurred last night in the city of Poitiers (western France), in which there were hundreds of people involved, As reported this Friday by the French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau.

Among the injured are at least three teenagerstwo 16 years old and one 15 years old. The vital prognosis of the latter is serious risk of death since he was shot in the head.

The shooting sparked a big fight between rival gangs in the area of ​​the Place de Coimbra, a common point of the drug market in Poitiers, and at its peak there were “between 400 and 600” implieds, as explained by Retailleau in an interview with the chain BFMTV.

The event began around 10:45 p.m. local time (9:45 p.m. GMT) on Thursday and occurred after another incident related to drug trafficking last weekend. left a 5-year-old child in critical condition in the Rennes area.

Retailleau traveled to that Breton city during the afternoon, from where he promised more means to fight this problem, given that he considers that France is becoming “Mexicanized,” in his own words.

“They saw him in Marseille, they saw him last night in Paris, they saw him a few days ago here with a 5-year-old child who is between life and death… And it is not in South America, it is not in Mexico, it is not in Bolivia. It is in Rennes, in Poitiers, in Marsella, it’s in France,” he said in statements to the media.