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Massive shootout sparks battle between 'up to 600 people' in France: Minister condemns the country's 'Mexicanisation' as drug gang violence spirals

2024-11-02

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Up to 600 people were involved in the Poitiers battle following the shootout

Shots were fired at a kebab shop in the city overnight

Five teens were seriously injured, with one in a state of 'brain death'

A massive shootout linked to drug trafficking has left a teenager and four others, including two teenage girls, seriously wounded in western France, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on Friday, in the latest such gunfight to injure children.

The shootout erupted in front of a Poitiers restaurant, reportedly the 'L'Othentik' kebab shop, overnight after shots were 'fired from a passing car injuring a number of people', the minister said.

French police told Le Figaro that 'at least 12' bullet holes, believed to have been 22-calibre rounds, were seen on the facade of the restaurant, while weapons were found at the scene.

'We are at a tipping point and the choice we have today is a choice between general mobilisation or the Mexicanisation of the country.’

'What started as a shooting at a restaurant ended up in a fight between rival gangs that involved several hundred people', Retailleau said.

Cops said that between 400 and 600 people were involved in the violence that escalated in the aftermath of the shootout, which reportedly came 'against a backdrop of tensions between the Maghreb and Guadeloupean communities.'

Oboy. The Maghreb means the jihadi-narco trafficking nexus of Al Qaeda in North Africa, while the overseas department of Guadeloupe…actually, I have no idea what that’s all about. Probably analogous to Puerto Rico or Guam or something.

The 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head was between life and death, he said.

French newspaper Le Parisien reported that the boy's family has been informed that he was left in a state of 'brain death', after he was rushed to the nearby Poitiers University Hospital.

The newspaper also reported that the other four injured, three 16-year-olds and another 15-year-old, were also rushed to hospital after they suffered shots to the shoulder, head, ankle and feet, though they are in a less serious condition.

Cops were 'set upon' by '80 to 100' people in the crowd, and were forced to arrest dozens to restore calm by around 2:30am.

Police in the city said they were sending reinforcements to calm tensions.

The minister warned that the country was at a 'tipping point' when it came to drug trafficking violence.

'These shootings are not happening in South America, they are happening in Rennes, in Poitiers, in this part of western France once known for its tranquility', he starkly said.

'We are at a tipping point and the choice we have today is a choice between general mobilisation or the Mexicanisation of the country,' he said, citing Mexico's deep problem with cartel violence.

Léonore Moncond'huy, the mayor of Poitiers, said the incident was 'a new episode of violence unacceptable for the neighbourhood'.

The BBC adds :

Pictures from the scene in Place Coimbra, an area of the city known for drug-related crimes, showed the restaurant's facade riddled with bullet holes.

The shooting then triggered fighting between rival gang groups in the area, according to police.

"Tensions between groups broke out, requiring the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie," Vienne regional police said in a statement.

Retailleau said "400 to 600" people were at the scene, though it is not clear how many of those were directly involved.

He was scheduled to visit Rennes, the capital of Brittany, on Friday following the shooting on 26 October, in which a five-year-old boy sitting in a car was shot in the head. Authorities confirmed the shooting was also drug-related.

The drug trade in France has long been viewed as centred in the southern port city of Marseille, where at least 17 drug-related killings have been reported since the start of the year.

But researchers say the influence of drug trafficking in France in recent years has spread beyond the main hubs of Marseille and Paris to medium-sized towns and even rural areas.

Posted by:Skidmark

#8 A long walk... as the crow flies. Ou, "Coucou!"

Ooh la la, how les pélerins flock
To the land of la langue de TikTok
And its pelican's nest,
Licking blood from her breast
As she succors ses coqs du Maroc!

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-11-02 20:53

#7 Guadeloupe, where les garçons go sunning,
Grows coconuts, lazy but cunning,
A bit like the Haitians
If France had had patience
Instead of just raping and running.

Thoughof course that hardly does the Frogs justice.

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-11-02 20:29

#6 Yeah, it's the Mexicans. Has nothing to do with the Islamoterrorists you've embraced.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-11-02 19:41

#5 Mexicanisation not Moroconization?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-02 11:37

#4 Hey!
We were Mexicanized first.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-02 11:33

#3 general mobilisation or Mexicanizsation I'm sure that the Provencal will warm to the flavors of pastor - the north may prove to be a diff story.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-11-02 10:41

#2 These shootings are not happening in South America

Sort of missed out on Columbia's recent past?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-11-02 08:16

#1
I see the EU Open Borders Policy biting them in the butt also.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-11-02 05:12

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