Nnew drama in the streets of Rennes. A young man died Saturday afternoon in Rennes after receiving stab wounds following a new knife attack, reported the prosecution and police sources. It was around 4:30 p.m. in the Pontchaillou district located west of Rennes when the young man, aged around twenty, was injured by several stab wounds “on a deal point”, said a source. police officer.
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In serious condition, he died a few hours later from his injuries, the same police source told Agence France-Presse. Although he confirmed this death, the Rennes public prosecutor, Frédéric Teillet, made it clear that for the moment, no link with a deal point has been established. The ongoing investigation will have to determine the exact conditions which led to such a tragedy, while a second police source said that the young man received several stab wounds in the lobby of a building.
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A little later in the same evening, a second man aged 29 was seriously injured in a second knife attack, this time in the city center of Rennes near Place de Bretagne. Hit five times, he was hospitalized in absolute emergency. It was only around 10 p.m. that a man claiming to be the perpetrator of the attack presented himself at the Rennes police station, a police source reported to AFP.
ALSO READ Drug trafficking: Bruno Retailleau goes to war against the “Mexicanization” of FranceThese two tragedies occur in a particular context in the Breton capital which is the theater of several settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking in recent months. The day before, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau had visited Rennes, particularly in the popular district of Maurepas, a hotbed of drug trafficking. A ministerial trip which takes place just one week aftera five-year-old child was seriously injured shot in the head during a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking in the neighborhood. Hospitalized in a state of absolute emergency, the boy is still between life and death, said Bruno Retailleau.
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