In Rennes, six suspects imprisoned for shootings in January – Liberation
It took a few months for the investigators to go up the track after the series of violence that upset the city of Rennes at the start of the year. Six suspects aged 17 to 26 were indicted and placed in pre -trial detention for several shootings against the backdrop of drug trafficking Intervened in January in a sensitive district of Rennes, announced the prosecution on Friday, May 23 in the evening.
« None recognizes his participation in the facts except one of them, who admits having recovered the shooters » during one of the shootings and « Having participated in drug trafficking », said Rennes Prosecutor Frédéric Teillet.
The events had taken place in The Villejean district. On Sunday, January 5, around 1:30 p.m., three hooded people, dressed in dark outfits, had shot a group of newly installed drug dealers, before fleeing.
Twelve 9 mm caliber case had been found on the crime scene. A projectile had crossed the bay window of an apartment, ending its race on the sofa on which a man was seated with his partner. There had been no victim.
A new shooting had taken place on Saturday January 11 around 7:30 p.m., this time making two bullets injured, one very seriously, the other more slightly. A man armed with a gunner pistol had targeted a group of drug dealers grouped in front of a closed press tobacco.
The six suspects arrested were notably indicted for attempting to murder in an organized gang, participation in an association of criminals for the preparation of a crime and acquisition, transport, detention, offer or sale of drugs. Some of them are not known to justice, still others have many history.
