Paris:
An enormous shootout linked to drug trafficking has left a youngster and 4 others severely wounded in western France, Inside Minister Bruno Retailleau stated Friday, within the newest such gunfight to injure kids.
The shootout erupted in entrance of a restaurant in a single day within the western metropolis of Poitiers, Retailleau instructed BFMTV/RMC radio.
“What began as a taking pictures at a restaurant ended up in a combat between rival gangs that concerned a number of hundred folks”, Retailleau stated.
The 15-year-old boy wounded was between life and dying, he stated.
The minister warned that the nation was at a “tipping level” when it got here to drug trafficking violence, saying that he was planning to journey later within the day to the northwestern metropolis of Rennes, the place a five-year-old youngster was additionally between life and dying after being shot on Saturday in one other hearth trade associated to drug trafficking.
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