A massive shootout linked to drug trafficking has seriously wounded a teenager and four others in western France, the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, said, in the latest such gunfight to injure children.
The shootout erupted overnight in front of a restaurant in Poitiers, Retailleau told BFMTV/RMC radio on Friday. âWhat started as a shooting at a restaurant ended up in a fight between rival gangs that involved several hundred people,â he said.
The 15-year-old boy was between life and death, he said.
The minister warned that France was at a âtipping pointâ when it came to drug trafficking violence, saying he was planning to travel later in the day to Rennes, where a five-year-old child was also critically ill after being shot on Saturday in another drug trafficking fire exchange.
