the mayor issues an order against gatherings in this area of ​​the city center

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A few weeks agoan 18-year-old high school student testified tonews Rennes of the attack committed by around fifteen young people of which he was the victim in the Colombier district, in the city center of the Breton capital.

This fact is just one of many which pushed the mayor of Rennes, Nathalie Appéré, to issue a municipal decree to prohibit excessive and prolonged gatherings and static groupings constituting disturbances to peace and security.

“A situation in which tranquility deteriorates”

Elle announced it herself, Friday December 13, on the Place du Colombier itself, during a press briefing dedicated to the presentation of a new tool acquired for the municipal police.

The sector is in a situation in which tranquility is deteriorating in a particular way. There were no less than 200 police patrols in July and August.

As the issuance of an order requires, the latter is justified due to “numerous complaints and reports […] relating to annoying occupations accompanied by alcohol consumption, consumption and sale of narcotics, provocations and attacks, aggressive begging, brawl without or with the use of bladed weapons in the area of ​​the Colombier slab and the entrance to the Charles de Gaulle metro station in particular.”

Many facts

Indeed, according to police findings, the City counts in this district in 2024specifies the decree:

• 40 counts of intentional assault and battery,
• 11 weapon ports,
• 77 shoplifting and 26 pickpocketing,
• nearly 600 interventions by the national and municipal police,
• 74 fines for alcohol consumption issued by the municipal police,
• several hundred cessations of infringements,
• arrests following the commission of offenses (33 placements in police custody of arrested persons)

Thus, the decree applies until June 30, 2025every day, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning.

The perimeter prohibiting gatherings

The perimeter includes the following axes: boulevard Magenta, boulevard de la Liberté, rue Tronjoliy, rue du Puits Mauger,
boulevard de la Tour d’Auvergne, rue du Papier Timbré, rue du Capitaine Maignan, rue de l’Alma, rue Gurvand.

The goal is “to end the problematic occupation of the public domain,” insists the mayor, but recalls that this decree obviously does not concern solidarity actionssuch as marauding, which can be organized in this sector.

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