The Blosne district in Rennes was once again the scene of a tragedy on Thursday January 2. A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death in Square de Slovakie, the victim of violence that had become as banal as it was unbearable. Despite the rapid intervention of emergency services, the young man did not survive. An investigation is underway, entrusted to the Organized and Specialized Crime Division (DCOS). But a question arises: how long will we continue to tolerate this spiral of violence?
Violence that has become commonplace
This tragedy is part of a macabre series which has plagued Rennes for months. Barely a few days before this tragedy, two young men aged 15 and 21 were stabbed in the Villejean district. The previous month, a 25-year-old man was stabbed in the city center. The list is growing, relentless, and the causes are often the same: trafficking, settling of scores, gratuitous attacks.
“Living together”, this mantra so often repeated by our political and media elites, is being transformed every day more into “dying side by side”. Neighborhoods, due to crazy city politics, have become battlefields where the law of the most violent reigns. And yet, the authorities persist in denying reality, speaking of isolated “news stories” or “localized tensions”.
A culpable ideological laxity
This situation is not the result of chance. It is the direct consequence of decades of ideological laxity and disastrous immigration and security policies. The authorities, paralyzed by their obsession with political correctness, have allowed lawless areas to flourish where traffickers and delinquents reign. In Rennes as elsewhere, law enforcement and justice are struggling to curb violence that they no longer have the means – or sometimes the will – to combat.
Every stabbing, every crime in our streets, is a scathing reminder of this collective failure. Neighborhoods like Blosne or Villejean, once peaceful places to live, have become symbols of a Brittany, of a France which is sinking into insecurity. And meanwhile, our leaders continue to sell us the virtues of “living together”, despite the evidence.
In this deleterious atmosphere, the feeling of impunity is becoming widespread. The traffickers operate in complete peace, the delinquents reoffend without fear, and the residents suffer. How many times have we heard that the perpetrators of these crimes were “known to the police”? How much longer will we tolerate a justice system that releases the guilty due to lack of prison space or in the name of a poorly digested human rights ideology?
The fatal attack on this young man in Blosne is not an exception. It is the symptom of a society in complete decomposition, where the authorities prefer to look the other way rather than attack the roots of evil.
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