Two young people aged 16 and 21 were seriously injured after being hit by a car around 6:30 a.m. this Friday in Vannes. It would be a voluntary act according to what the first elements of the investigation and the first video surveillance images that the police were able to view suggest.
The victims, like the driver of the vehicle, had spent the night at Zip, the nightclub near the Master and the casino. According to Tony Lebreton, the manager of this night establishment, things started to go wrong between the two groups outside the club. “My doormen went to the Chorus car park, as they usually do at the close of the nightclub, to make sure there was no problem. There was a seemingly very trivial dispute between the two groups, which gave rise to insults, but nothing more. My staff made sure it stayed there. From what I know, the group of pedestrians left on foot towards the Racker roundabout. Those in cars headed in the opposite direction. But they have obviously turned around.”
Did the car turn around?
The rest takes place in rue Winston-Churchill, a few hundred meters from the nightclub, near the Brasserie bleue restaurant. The car rushes towards the three pedestrians. Two were hit, the oldest, very violently, was thrown over the wall which separates the street from the restaurant.
“One of my waitresses arrived shortly after the accident,” continues Tony Lebreton. Inside the vehicle, the passengers were completely shocked, they were screaming and crying. The driver wasn't there. She spoke with the third pedestrian who was also in shock. According to his version, the car made a U-turn at the small roundabout which is above that of the Racker to return in the opposite direction of its traffic lane and hit the group on the cycle path. These are the elements that investigators will have to verify in order to give a definitive explanation of what happened in the early morning in Vannes.
