Drug shooting leads to massive brawl involving hundreds in western France – POLITICO

Retailleau said he would later travel to the northwestern city of Rennes, where a five-year-old boy was shot in the head last week in another drug-related incident, according to local media.

In his interview, Retailleau condemned what he called the “Mexicanization” of France.

“These shootings are not taking place in South America, but in Rennes, Poitiers, in this western France that was once known for its calm. We are at a turning point,” he said.

France has struggled in recent years with a rise in drug-related crime in Marseille, the historic center of the country's illegal drug trade, and in small and medium-sized cities across the country.