The vital prognosis of the five-year-old child, seriously injured by bullets at the end of October near Rennes during a chase linked to drug trafficking, is no longer in jeopardy but he risks permanent disability, announced Thursday, November 7, the Rennes parquet floor.
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 Rennes public prosecutor Frédéric Teillet in a press release.
The young boy”will, however, very likely present neurological after-effects and permanent disability is considered by the medical examiner“, adds the magistrate.
2 bullets in the head on October 26 in the town of Pacé
The child was shot twice in the head on October 26 in the town of Pacé, near Rennes, while he was driving 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 hotbed of 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 “narcoracailles“, indicating that the father of the injured child was himself known to the courts for drug trafficking.
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.
The investigation, carried out jointly by the police and the gendarmerie, aims to “identify and arrest the occupants of the vehicle that chased the victim's vehicle and from which the shots were fired, as well as their accomplices or co-perpetrators“, according to the press release.
