A man stabbed to death in the center of Rennes, the attacker “on the run”

This Tuesday, a man was fatally stabbed in the middle of the day during a “violent altercation” in the center of Rennes, we learned from a police source. “During a violent altercation in the street, a man was stabbed by another man”using a “large kitchen knife”said this source.

The attacker is “on the run”she added. An investigation was opened and “findings are underway” at the scene of the crime, rue Papu. According to another police source, the altercation took place around 12:30 p.m.

The victim's body was covered with a white sheet in the middle of the street, in this quiet neighborhood, in front of a network guesthouse “Habitat and Humanism” and some 50 meters from a nursery school, noted an AFP journalist on site. Police officers roam the street, blocked off to traffic, looking for the murder weapon, according to AFP. A representative of the public prosecutor's office is on site.