Election night was turbulent on Sunday evening in Rennes.
Shortly after the announcement of the results of the first round of the presidential election, about 500 people, mainly young people, marched through the streets of the city center.
On the way, shop windows were broken and street furniture damaged.
A Caisse d'Épargne bank targeted tonight in #Rennes during the demonstration against Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
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Following this violence and degradation, a flagrant investigation was opened on Sunday evening by the Rennes prosecutor's office.
This investigation "targets the heads of serious damage to property of public interest and private property during demonstrations on the public highway", indicates the Rennes prosecutor's office, specifying that the penalty incurred was five years and a fine of 75,000 euros. .
The mayor condemns "violence and vandalism"
The facades of several buildings were also tagged in Rennes with messages such as "Youth fuck national fascism, Le Pen fascist dynasty", "Burn the right", "Social war".
The demonstrators also chanted anti-capitalist and anti-extreme right slogans.
"In five years, Macron has broken everything and there we are doing it again in the second round ... We are pissed off and we only have that to express ourselves: fire and breaking things", testified the one of the demonstrators, aged 21.
The socialist mayor of Rennes Nathalie Appéré immediately reacted to this violence on her Twitter account.
“I strongly condemn the damage committed this evening in the city center of Rennes.
Democracy is not and it will never be violence or vandalism,” she said.
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