• A march for peace is organized on Wednesday afternoon in the Maurepas district of Rennes.

  • This popular district located north of Rennes has been plagued by an outbreak of violence for a month.

  • The inhabitants and associations of the district denounce this climate of violence and call for appeasement.

“We have been living for too long with violent clashes and for some unacceptable intimidation”.

In Rennes, the inhabitants of Maurepas are fed up with the violence that plagues their neighborhood and stigmatizes it.

At the call of several associations and collectives, a march for peace is organized on Wednesday afternoon to say stop to "this violence which affects our neighborhood in the heart".

In recent weeks, Maurepas has indeed been the scene of scenes of extreme violence with settling of accounts against a background of drug trafficking.

On June 13, a 28-year-old man lost his life there, stabbed in the heart.

Two weeks later, this time it was the police who were targeted in the middle of the afternoon.

While on bike patrol near a deal point where gunfire had just erupted, the three officers were targeted by a flurry of automatic weapon fire.

Since then, "the situation remains tense and plunges the inhabitants of the neighborhood into fear", write on Facebook the organizers of the march for peace.

“We want appeasement here and now”

They are especially worried about these young people "who have been sinking for too long into inter-district violence amplified by social networks".

“Some of our children who are not basically in gangs can be harassed and then caught up and involved in this circle of violence despite our positive co-educations in connection with the actresses and actors of the neighborhood”, they indicate, putting the emphasis on the school break which "is a decisive element in the trajectory of young recruits".

Despite the tense context, the inhabitants and the actors of the associative world refuse fatalism.

“We want peace here and now.

We want to continue the reappropriation of our public space", they chant, seeing in this march for peace a first step to "self-organize together to show that we are determined to cultivate the vitality of our popular district, bubbling and solidarity”.

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