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Nantes Shooting Kills 15-Year-Old as Minister Pledges Drug-Trafficking Crackdown

A brazen strike at a known drug market underscores turf wars now reaching school-age children.

Des policiers devant l'immeuble où un adolescent a été tué par balles à Nantes, le 14 mai 2026.
FRED TANNEAU / AFP [FRED TANNEAU / AFP]
Des policiers sur le lieu de la fusillade dans le quartier Port-Boyer de Nantes, le 14 mai 2026.
Des policiers près de la zone de la fusillade, dans le quartier du Port Boyer à Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), le 15 mai 2026.

Overview

  • The burst of gunfire that hit a Port-Boyer tower Thursday evening around 7:30 p.m. left a 15-year-old dead and boys aged 13 and 14 wounded after two masked riders opened fire and fled on a two-wheeler.
  • Prosecutor Antoine Leroy called it a score-settling tied to drug offenses and later said the two hospitalized boys are now out of danger.
  • The Division for Organized and Specialized Crime is leading the investigation, with no arrests so far as police track the shooters who fired in the lobby and chased one boy to the 13th floor.
  • Visiting Friday, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the site is a coveted dealing point, said nothing indicates the teens were involved in trafficking, and announced an Ofast anti-narcotics unit for Nantes along with stiffer fines for users.
  • Residents described fear and routine gunfire in recent months, and the attack follows late-April shootings in the same area as well as deadly drug-trade violence this week in Nice and near Lyon.