“The shots passed over the children’s park”: a war between drug dealers rages in this district of Rennes

“It’s not visible but I have the fear of death (Sic). I’m traumatized… I can’t stay at home alone. » This Monday lunchtime, Sandrine, in her forties, preferred to join her friends on a bench on the Kennedy slab in the Villejean district of Rennes. Impossible to stay alone at home.

Sunday December 5, a little before 2 p.m., the forty-year-old was almost in the same place. “I was sitting quietly on a bench located between the Roahzon coiffure hairdresser and the Terminus kebab shop… I had my back to the deal point, when a man with his face uncovered came from behind, he was chasing young dealers. He opened fire less than 3 m from me. About fifteen shots. I was so scared that I ran into the metro station for shelter. Since then, I have been shocked and terrified. » At her side, her friends: Jeannine, Soazig and Juliette didn’t take off. “We have lived in the neighborhood for 30 or 40 years. It’s been deteriorating for ten years but now we’re reaching new heights… Now it’s shooting in the middle of the day! And even on Sundays… And the shots will be lodged in the facades of buildings or even in the sofas, passing over the children’s park… What is the town hall doing? » Another witness to the scene explains: “The guy had his gun on his side, he was aiming it any way. He shouted to the one he was chasing: “You’re lucky my magazine is empty, because I would have you…”

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This Monday noon, many residents of Villejean expressed their anger, their fear and their “feeling of abandonment”. Sunday, December 5, a new episode of a war for appropriation of the deal point located between 8 and 10 Bourbonnais broke out. According to our information, three unhooded young men, faces uncovered but hooded, opened fire with an automatic weapon. Eleven 9mm cartridge cases were found on the slab and three projectiles hit the building at 9 rue du Nivernais, on the other side of the slab. Two in the wall and a third in the sofa of a first floor apartment. No injuries were reported. The investigation into this fact promises to be difficult, the police do not have images from video surveillance cameras because the entire city system was down on Sunday. A few days before this episode, a police officer confided to Télégramme: “We are very worried because the gang outside Rennes is trying to take over the deal point. The people of Rennes are not going to let this happen. We expect aftershocks. They’re not going to stop there. »

Several episodes of this same war had already punctuated the days and nights of the neighborhood in recent weeks. Specializing in cocaine, the deal point operates from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. Of the 37 deal points identified by the police in Rennes, it is one of the biggest and has existed for many years. So much so that the building at 8 Bourbonnais is in the process of being abandoned. There are only a few families left. Armored doors were installed to prevent squats. The lessor Espacil wishes to completely rehabilitate the building. As at 2 Bourbonnais, smaller accommodations will be created.

Hit with the butt of a long weapon