PARIS, NOV 1 – A mass shooting linked to drug trafficking left a teenager and four others seriously injured in western France, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said today, in the latest shooting to injure children.
Shots erupted in front of a restaurant in the western city of Poitiers yesterday, Retailleau told radio BFMTV/RMC.
“What started as a shooting at a restaurant ended in a fight between rival gangs involving several hundred people”, said Retailleau.
The injured 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life, he said.
The minister warned that the country was at a turning point in drug-trafficking violence, noting he planned to travel later in the day to the northwestern city of Rennes, where a five-year-old child is also fighting for his life after being shot on Saturday in another shooting related to drug trafficking. – AFP
