Four injured people, including three per firearms, after a shooting in a restaurant – Liberation

Three people were injured by shot this Thursday, April 17, in the northwest of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), we learned from a police source confirming information from information Ouest-France. The authors are on the run, according to this source. According to the daily life of the Grand-West « Three armed men entered a Subway restaurant in the Kennedy slab »in which they opened fire. An investigation for « Attempted murder in an organized gang » was opened, according to a judicial source.

Ouest-France specifies that the victims of the shots are three young men « Aged 18, 20 and 23 ». The oldest of them would be in an absolute state of emergency. Questioned on the spot by journalists, the mayor of the city, Nathalie Appéré, said that, in addition to these three people, a fourth was injured, « Tilled by a vehicle ». The daily adds that we do not know if « The latter fact is linked to the fire episode ». Our colleagues say that this 20 -year -old fourth man is in critical condition.

According to an elected opposition present in the restaurant at the time of the shooting, and whose words are reported by Ouest-Francethe authors of the gunshots made use of a weapon related to « An assault rifle, a weapon of war »: « There were at least four or five strokes of drawers. They made three injured in the legs, in the belly. ”

All were taken care of at the Rennes University Hospital. According to the councilor, the news on their state of health « Are reassuring »and there is « No vital prognosis committed ». A security perimeter has been put in place, preventing access to a sandwich shop whose curtain was lowered at the end of the day, just like those of neighboring businesses, noted an AFP journalist on site.

On the Kennedy slab, a district known for drug trafficking, where several fire episodes occurred, especially in January with two injured men, an important police presence was visible Thursday at the end of the day. With scientific police technicians, judicial police investigators and CRS. “The CRS 82 arrived very quickly, it is deployed on site. I got the assurance that she stays a few days ”, added Nathalie Appéré, believing that « Everyone is shocked and traumatized from this episode ».

« It is too early to obviously establish a link between what happened this afternoon and drug trafficking, observed Nathalie Appéré. However, everyone sees that in this district the various facts that could take place were against the backdrop of drug trafficking. (…) This is a fight that must be waged at the national level imperatively because the inhabitants who live near the points of deal live situations which are absolutely untenable, in a fear that must be named. « 

On January 11, two men, aged about fifty and forty years, had been victims of fire by people traveling by car near this same place. One of them had been affected by the thorax and the leg without his vital prognosis being engaged, said at the time of the Rennes prosecutor, Frédéric Teillet.