The sedation of the child, operated on several times, was “very gradually reduced”, “he was able to be extubated and his vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy”, explained the Rennes public prosecutor Frédéric Teillet. The young boy “will, however, very likely present neurological after-effects and permanent disability is considered by the forensic doctor,” adds the magistrate.
Two bullets in the head
The child was shot twice in the head on October 26 in the town of Pacé, near Rennes, while he was in his father’s car. She had been chased by pursuers who opened fire before fleeing.
The child’s father lives in the Maurepas district, a hotspot for drug trafficking in Rennes and the scene of several shootings and score-settlings since the start of the year.
The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau visited the site a week later and promised to strengthen the fight against “drug scum”, indicating that the father of the injured child was himself known to the courts for trafficking. of narcotics.
A judicial investigation has been opened and an investigating judge from the JIRS (Inter-regional Jurisdiction specializing in organized crime) of Rennes is now seized of facts of attempted assassination and criminal association with a view to committing a crime, specifies the prosecutor.
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