The news is a little more reassuring even if his state of health remains serious. Hit by two bullets in the head, the 5-year-old child victim of a score-settling on Saturday October 26 came out of the artificial coma in which he had been plunged. “His sedation was very gradually reduced,” said Frédéric Teillet, public prosecutor of Rennes, in a press release this Thursday evening. He was able to be extubated and his vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy.” The child will, however, “very likely have neurological after-effects and permanent disability is considered by the medical examiner,” added the prosecutor.
On October 26, the young boy was hit by two bullets fired by individuals who were in a vehicle pursuing his father's. This resident of Maurepas, a hotbed of drug trafficking, had tried to flee his neighborhood with his son to escape the men who were pursuing him. While heading towards Pacé, the driver was the target of bursts of automatic weapon fire, which hit his young son, sitting in the back.
According to his statements, he was trying to go to the boy's mother, knowing he was wanted. “As he left his home, he noticed that a vehicle whose occupants were hooded was following him. Although he tried to outrun them, at least one of them opened fire several times on his vehicle, hitting the child twice in the head,” the prosecutor explained.
No arrests yet
In this case, linked to drug trafficking which plagues the Maurepas district, no arrests have yet taken place. A judicial investigation for “attempted assassination and criminal association with a view to committing a crime” was opened by the JIRS prosecutor's office in Rennes “to identify and arrest the occupants of the vehicle who chased that of the victim and whose blows were fired, as were their accomplices or co-perpetrators.
Last week, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau traveled to Rennes, promising to fight against “the gangrene of drug trafficking”. Traveling to Marseille this Friday, the minister must announce the broad outlines of his plan to fight drug trafficking.
