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Since March 2024, Rennes has faced an intensification of violence linked to drug trafficking. The shootings, described as “one-off” a few months ago, have become weekly. Criminal gangs compete for control of the most profitable deal points, using firearms and brutal methods. A consequence of the professionalization of this very lucrative business.
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Since the end of July 2024, at least eight episodes of burst shooting have marked the Maurepas district, north of Rennes. Here, on September 23, in front of two buildings, at Brno alley. | WEST FRANCE
“Rennes is not Nantes and even less Marseille. » In March 2024, the prosecutor of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Philippe Astruc, summed up with these words the situation in the Breton capital, which had not yet descended into ultra-violence between drug traffickers. A way to calm things down, after the “Banat” episode. On the night of March 9 to 10, an armed commando burst into a deal point, in the popular Blosne district, to the south of the city. Two men were injured by automatic weapons fire, which lasted more than an hour.
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