Saturday October 26, a chase between two vehicles resulted in the gunshot wound of a 5-year-old child, hit by two projectiles in the head while he was a rear passenger in the car driven by his father. The child was hospitalized with a life-threatening prognosis. It is no longer, indicates this Thursday, November 7, 2024, the public prosecutor of Rennes, Frédéric Teillet. “His sedation was very gradually reduced,” specifies the magistrate. He was able to be extubated and his vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy. However, he will very likely present neurological after-effects and permanent disability is considered by the medical examiner. »
The investigation continues according to a slightly different procedural framework. Given the nature of the facts, and “at the end of the flagrance period”, it was the JIRS prosecutor's office in Rennes, qualified in matters of organized crime, which opened an investigation into this case. “This aims to continue the investigations intended to identify and arrest the occupants of the vehicle who chased that of the victim and from which the shots were fired, as well as their accomplices or co-perpetrators,” specifies Frédéric Teillet.
The investigating judge of the JIRS of Rennes is therefore now seized of facts of attempted assassination and criminal association with a view to committing a crime, in Rennes, Pacé and Vézin le Coquet. The police and the national gendarmerie are jointly investigating this matter.
