a man in his twenties stabbed to death

A man died on Saturday, November 2, in the afternoon in Rennes, after receiving stab wounds. Another was treated in absolute emergency following another knife attack, we learned, in particular, from the public prosecutor's office.

According to a police source reported by Agence France-Presse, around 4:30 p.m., in the Pontchaillou district, west of the city, 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 Rennes public prosecutor, Frédéric Teillet, confirmed this death, “but not the 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.

29-year-old man injured in another attack

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; he was 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; he was hit five times.

This death and this attack occur the day after the visit to Rennes of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who went to the working-class district of Maurepas, a hotbed of drug trafficking and the scene of several settling of scores in recent years. month.

Mr. Retailleau came to the Breton capital a week after a 5-year-old child was seriously injured by gunshots to the head during a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking in this neighborhood. The boy was still between life and death on Friday, the minister said.