the young boss of a lucrative deal point goes back to prison

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The Specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) condemned Thursday November 7, 2024 six men, including one of the brothers at the head of the drug trafficking of Kercado neighborhood in Vannes (Morbihan). A resident of Brest (Finistère) and four from Tours (Indre-et-Loire) responsible for “securing” the deal point were also sentenced.

At only 23 years old, a young man – already sentenced a few months ago in Vannes with his 22-year-old younger brother to five years in prison, a sentence which he appealed – was this time sentenced to four and a half years in prison. additional prison. He was accused of having initiated this ultraviolent kidnapping of two young drug dealers.

Clans compete for deal points

To understand the context in which the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Rennes immersed itself for three days, we must return to the spring of 2021. That year, the Kercado district was the scene of a rise in power of the violence under the backdrop of drug trafficking.

Several clans are competing for the least lucrative deal points in this neighborhood – €10,000 per day, according to the sound systems operated by the police – located in the south of the city.

Two clans are opposed to it: the historical managers of the traffic, two brothers well known in the Breton jurisdictions, have just been overtaken by two young brothers from Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine).

The brothers call on goons to scare

On June 11, 2021, the younger of these two brothers was also targeted by gunfire in Carnac (Morbihan), early in the evening. Then, the violence increased, and the justice system was not always able to identify the perpetrators of the various “murder attempts” that occurred that year.

To ensure the security of the deal points, and thus avoid a takeover by the rival clan, the two brothers had therefore called on henchmen responsible for instilling fear, most often of Chechen nationality. At the time, the public prosecutor's offices of Vannes, Lorient and the JIRS of Rennes even came together to act jointly against these settling of scores.

“What matters is to arrive […] to put the B. brothers in prison for as long as possible […]to bring them down before demonstrating anything,” squeaks their lawyer, Me Sami Khankan, deploring the opportunistic “slicing” of the proceedings against them into several separate files.

Two young drug dealers forced into a car

On July 29, 2021, two young drug dealers from Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) suspected of working for the rival clan of the two brothers had found refuge with residents of Arradon (Morbihan). ) who had called for help. One of them was in fact “seriously injured in the hand”. They had almost “cut off his finger”.

They then explained that they had been kidnapped when they had just “come to spend vacation” in Vannes. But in reality, the statements of other protagonists allow us to say that they had come, not for tourism, but rather to “make money”. The two “vacationers” were neither present nor represented at the trial.

“Chechens” had therefore “put them by force” that day in a car trunk in the middle of the Kercado district. A third man was also targeted by the kidnapping, but managed to flee. After receiving blows, one of the two – nicknamed “Lacrim” – was threatened with having his finger “cut off” and being “burned in the car” by the Chechens, who had actually tried to cut it off. , in vain.

In the end, the two young people had waited “several hours” in the trunk before being released in a field.

“I didn’t think they were going to be tortured to this extent”

In this case, four Chechen nationals living in Tours, Joué-lès-Tours or Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (Indre-et-Loire) were identified. They had already been spotted, even arrested, at deal points in the Kercado district. “Links” between their telephone lines and that of one of the two brothers had also been made by the investigators.

They were subsequently recognized by the victims on “photographic plates”. Among them, their “recruiter” of Armenian origin, a resident of Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, had been implicated. The latter, defended by Me Colin Verguet, explained that he had recruited henchmen to “secure” the “children” who were dealing. The “only adults” present at the deal point received “€300 per day” by playing tough with Kercado.

“I didn't know that they were going to suffer such violence, otherwise I would not have taken them there,” said a Chechen living in Joué-les-Tours who had played the driver. “I didn’t think they were going to be tortured to this extent”…

A young man sentenced to four and a half years in prison

In the morning, the representative of the JIRS prosecution had requested sentences ranging from one to four years in prison for the “henchmen” in this case. Above all, she called for M. to be sentenced to seven years in prison.

But in the end, a day in advance, the JIRS ruled this Thursday, November 7, 2024. The 23-year-old young man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, with continued detention. On the other hand, the five others received sentences ranging from eleven months to two years and four months in prison.

These sentences “cover pre-trial detention” or “could be carried out in the form of an electronic bracelet”, detailed the president of the JIRS of Rennes. None of them therefore returned to detention.

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