Violence once again plunges the city of Rennes into mourning. A young man died on Saturday afternoon after being stabbed and another man is in absolute emergency following another knife attack.
According to a police source, around 4:30 p.m., in the Pontchaillou district, west of Rennes, a man in his twenties was seriously injured with a knife “on a deal point”. He died from his injuries an hour later, according to this source.
The prosecution does not confirm the link with drug trafficking
The Rennes public prosecutor Frédéric Teillet confirmed this death, “but no link with a point of deal, at this stage” of the investigation, he specified. According to another police source, the young man was stabbed in the lobby of a building.
A little later, around 7 p.m., a man was seriously injured after receiving several stab wounds in the city center of the Breton capital, near Place de Bretagne, and hospitalized. Around 10 p.m., a man presented himself at the Rennes police station to say that he was the author of the stabbings, according to a police source. According to West Francethe victim of this attack is a 29-year-old man and was stabbed five times.
A 5-year-old child between life and death
This death and this attack occur the day after the visit to Rennes of the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who notably visited the popular district of Maurepas, a hotbed of drug trafficking and the scene of several settling of scores in recent years. month.
The tenant of Place Beauvau came to the Breton capital a week after a five-year-old child was seriously injured by gunshots to the head near Rennes during a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking in the neighborhood by Maurepas. The little boy was still between life and death on Friday.
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