Burned vital prognosis, arrests, reinforcements of CRS … What we know about the shooting in a subway restaurant in Rennes – Liberation

Four people were injured Thursday, April 17, in Rennes after Shots in the Villejean district (north-west of the city), prey to drug trafficking. The first three were injured by ball and the fourth was overthrown by a car. An investigation for « Attempted murder in an organized gang » Was opened and four people were placed this Friday, April 18 in police custody. In a press release, the Rennes prosecutor’s office gives more elements on the course of events.

According to the assistant prosecutor of Rennes, « Three shootings » took place Thursday, Square de Flanders, Cours John Fitzgerald Kennedy and rue du Bourbonnais in the late afternoon. Jean-Marie Blin explains that during a « First sequence »a Peugeot 2008 SUV is struck a young man « In twenty years, of Italian nationality ». The vehicle then hunts several people who try to run away. « Several shots » are then heard by witnesses. Then, the SUV returns near the overturned person and « The occupants of the vehicle (take it) in photos ». The vital prognosis for this first victim is currently committed, specifies the prosecution.

Secondly, the car takes the direction of the Kennedy course. Three people are out, equipped « A long weapon » and two « Fist weapon (s) ». They go to a group of young people « Attailed (on) terrace » of a subway restaurant. Three members of this group find refuge inside the sandwich shop before being the target of several shots. Stingy « Between 18 and 27 years old » and of French nationality, they are affected « To the lower limbs » And « At the abdomen »for one of them. Transferred to the Rennes University Hospital, all three left the hospital overnight, said the assistant prosecutor.

The authors of the shots then take over the management of the rue du Bourbonnais, where they again use their weapons. According to the prosecution, « Another victim has not been identified » there. The three men then go back to their vehicle and flee west of Rennes. Their SUV is spotted by the police a few hours later.

Quickly, the gendarmes arrested a 20 -year -old man, of French nationality. He has « immediately » been placed in police custody for « Attempts to murder in an organized gang and association of criminals for the preparation of crimes ». According to the prosecution, the young man comes from the Paris region.

During the night of Thursday to Friday, various police services and the local RAID branch searched an apartment. According to the Rennes prosecutor’s office, it has been identified as « A place of withdrawal of the aggressors and domiciliation of the individual arrested (that originating in the Paris region, editor’s note) ». Three men aged between the ages of 21 and 23 were arrested in turn. Two are of French nationality and the third of Congolese nationality. They were also placed in police custody for « attempted murder in an organized gang and association of criminals for the preparation of crimes ».

According to information from our colleagues fromWest Francea « Violent opa » To recover a deal point was preparing in the Kennedy district, « Mecca for drug trafficking »for several weeks. In a message published this Friday afternoon on X, the Minister of the Interior described as« Unacceptable » These shootings. Bruno Retailleau posted his will to « (Put) out of harm » of the « Barbarians ». And the very right -handed minister to talk about « War (…) against drug trafficking ».

As such, the CRS 82 was deployed in the prefecture of Ille et Vilaine. « I got the assurance that she stays a few days »assured the mayor of Rennes yesterday, Nathalie Appéré. According to her, the city has « Need more police presence ». The Kennedy slab where the shooting took place, located in the Villejean district, was the theater in recent months of several episodes of fire, including one in January in which two men had been injured.