He presented himself at the police station on his own initiative on Saturday to denounce himself. An 18-year-old young person was indicted and imprisoned, the public prosecutor in the Breton capital announced on Monday. He is suspected of having fatally stabbed another young person on Saturday afternoon in Rennes.
“While he was on the footbridge overlooking the railway near the Pontchaillou University Hospital, a 19-year-old young man was the victim of beatings by two individuals,” said Frédéric Teillet.
“One of them stabbed him several times, the second then made him fall to the ground by kicking him in the legs, then punched him in the face” , added the magistrate. Two witnesses immediately intervened to help the victim and take him to the emergency room where he died.
Provisional detention
Placed in police custody, the accused “admitted to having wanted to settle a “dispute” with the victim, without specifying what nature, and that to do this, he had bought a knife shortly before the facts”, d 'after the magistrate. The suspect confirmed having carried out the stabbing, then used his right to silence during the remainder of the police custody.
The autopsy carried out on Monday confirmed the presence of three stab wounds, to the arm, heart and liver, the last two being fatal. On the instructions of the Rennes public prosecutor's office, which opened an investigation into the murder charge, the suspect was brought to court on Monday, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention, in accordance with the request of the parquet.
The accused is known to the courts for having been convicted three times by the Rennes children's court for aggravated theft and for offenses linked to drug trafficking. The victim was known to the courts for offenses related to drug trafficking.
