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Mass shootings and clashes linked to drug trafficking in France. It is reported that five people, including three teenagers, were seriously injured.
The shooting began around 10:45 p.m. Thursday outside a restaurant in Poitiers and quickly escalated into a mass brawl, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said.
"What started as a shooting at a restaurant ended in a fight between rival gangs involving several hundred people ," Retailleau said. A 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head is in critical condition, he said.
Citing police sources, BFMTV said two other teenagers, both 16, were among the injured. People in a car had opened fire at a bar-restaurant in Place Coimbra, a known drug-trafficking hotspot, before driving away.
The police found the five wounded near the bar, which was riddled with a dozen bullets. The officers were then attacked by youths amid a battle between rival gangs that at its peak involved hundreds of people, BFMTV said.
Retailleau said France was at a turning point when it came to drug-related violence.
"Trafficking gangs today have no borders. These shootings are not in Latin America, they are in Rennes, in Poitiers, in once quiet western France. We have a choice between general mobilization or the Mexicanization of the country," he said.
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