A young man died on Saturday November 2 afternoon in Rennes after receiving stab wounds and another man was in absolute emergency following another knife attack, we learned from the prosecution and police sources.
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.
Rennes public prosecutor Frédéric Teillet confirmed this death to AFP, “but no link with a deal point, at this stage” of the investigation, he said. According to another police source, the young man was stabbed in the lobby of a building.
Another attack in the evening
A little later, around 7:00 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 France, the victim of this attack is a 29-year-old man and was stabbed five times.
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. recent months.
Mr. Retailleau came to the Breton capital a week after a five-year-old child was seriously injured by bullets in the head near Rennes during a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking in the Maurepas district. The boy was still between life and death on Friday, the minister said.
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