A shooting incident in France turned into a large-scale brawl. Police and military police intervened
The shooting incident resulted in a large-scale gun battle in which five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were seriously injured. Police estimate up to 600 people may have attended. Something disturbing happened in western France.
A frightening incident occurred in Poitiers, France, on Thursday night, according to AFP news agency. Police estimated that up to 600 people took part in the large-scale fighting in the streets.
The fighting was preceded by a shooting incident near a restaurant in the city. As a result, five people, including a 15-year-old boy, were seriously injured. The boy is in critical condition and fighting for his life. French authorities suspect both incidents are related to drug trafficking.
Poitiers. A huge brawl in a French city. shots were fired
Police sources said shots were fired from a passing car, after which fighting broke out in the street between rival groups. Police and military police intervened.
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Photos from the scene of the shooting in the crime-prone Plaza Coimbra show the restaurant's facade riddled with bullet holes.
“Do not take over.'' French authorities after the incident in Poitiers
French Interior Minister Bruno Letaillot called the incident “a worrying sign of escalating violence.” “Shooting incidents don't happen in South America. They happen in Rennes and Poitiers in western France, which used to be famously peaceful,” the politician said.
He said France was “at a tipping point” and that the choice facing France was “either national mobilization or Mexicanization.” In this way, Letaillot alluded to Mexico's pervasive crime problem. Mayor Poitiers called the incident “another incident of violence that is unacceptable for the district.”
Poitiers is another French city shocked by tragic events. On Saturday, October 26, a shooting in Rennes, in the northwestern part of the country, killed a five-year-old boy who was in a car.
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