A young man died on Saturday afternoon, November 2, in Rennes, after being stabbed. Another man was in a state of absolute emergency after another knife attack, as we learned from police and prosecutor sources.
According to a police source informed by Agence France-Presse, around 4:30 p.m., in the Pontchaillou district, west of Rennes, a man in his twenties was seriously injured with a knife. “at a deal point”. He died from his injuries an hour later, according to this source.
The Rennes prosecutor, Frédéric Teillet, confirmed this death. “but there is no link to a point of agreement at this time” of the investigation, he said. According to another police source, the young man was stabbed in the lobby of a building.
A 29-year-old man injured in another attack
Shortly afterwards, around 7:00 p.m., a man was seriously injured after receiving several stab wounds in the center of the Breton capital, near the Place de Bretagne, and was hospitalized. Around 10 p.m., a man showed up at the Rennes police station to claim that he was the perpetrator of the stabbings, according to a police source. According Western FranceThe victim of this attack is a 29-year-old man and he received five stab wounds.
This death and this attack occur one day after the visit to Rennes of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who visited in particular the popular Maurepas neighborhood, the focus of drug trafficking and the scene of several settling of scores in recent months. .
Mr. Retailleau arrived in the Breton capital a week after a five-year-old boy was seriously wounded by a bullet in the head near Rennes during a reckoning related to drug trafficking in the Maurepas district. The boy was still between life and death on Friday, the minister said.
