A new episode of fire on the background of drug trafficking rocked the popular district of Villejean on Saturday May 3 in Rennes on Saturday. Two minors were injured by bullets, practically in the same place as during the April 17 shooting where three men had been affected by firearm.
Saturday around 7:30 p.m., in a street parallel to the Kennedy slab where shops and metro are located, “A group of men who arrived in a vehicle descend with at least one automatic weapon, and fire on a group of individuals present on site”detailed the public prosecutor of Rennes on Sunday, Frédéric Teillet, in a press release.
“A dozen gunshots are fired, injuring the members of this second group on the legs. A third is also struck by several attackers ”added the magistrate.
“There were shots and we saw young people running. It’s terrible because it still starts again while on the slab there were police officers! »»told the France-Presse Régine Komokoli agency, elected to the departmental and resident of the district. “We didn’t even have time to lower tensions [liées à la précédente fusillade] And there it starts again, again in the middle of the day “she added.
The attackers fled by car and were “Hunted by the police services very quickly arrived at the scene”according to Mr. Teillet. The three individuals, aged 19 to 21, were finally arrested in Saint-Grégoire, a rennes adjoining town, then placed in police custody.
Arme «de Type Kalachnikov»
The three victims, minors aged 16 to 17, were hospitalized. The two bullet injured suffered surgery, without their days in danger. The third injured came out of the hospital.
Proof of the intensity of the shots, “On the scene of the facts, impacts were noted on three vehicles and another in an unoccupied apartment. The probably used weapon, of the Kalashnikov type, was found on the flight route ”said the prosecutor.
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The Rennes prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into attempted murder in an organized gang, an association of criminals and voluntary violence in a meeting, entrusted to the City Crime Division (DCOS) of the city.
Sunday morning, the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture announced that a CRS company was sent overnight to Villejean.
” Incomprehension “
In a press release, Lénaïc Brièro, deputy mayor delegate for security, described this “New episode of settling of accounts between drug traffickers” of “Particularly chilling and revolting”.
“Despite this exemplary mobilization of the local police and justice, this new shooting could not be avoided. This arouses a legitimate misunderstanding and raises, once again, the question of the means affected by the State to the fight against drug traffickers and to the protection of the inhabitants of our city ”added the elected official.
On April 17, three men were shot in a sandwich shop in this popular and lively district, considered one of the most affected by drug trafficking in the Breton capital. Four men, aged 21 to 23, suspected of having trained this commando, were imprisoned.
The investigations made it possible to establish that the four suspects were “Involved in the trafficking of narcotic products organized by a network of individuals from the Paris region on the Kennedy slab, since January”according to the Rennes prosecutor’s office.
