Charles Guyard with AFP // Photo credit: AFP 08:55, March 16, 2024
Two men were injured by “automatic weapon fire” after a chase between two vehicles on the A84 motorway, near Coglès (Ille-et-Vilaine), a few days after a major shooting in Rennes, announced Friday the prosecution.
Two men were injured by “automatic weapon fire” after a chase between two vehicles on the A84 motorway, near Coglès (Ille-et-Vilaine), a few days after a major shooting in Rennes, announced Friday the prosecution.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, around 10 p.m. three men traveling in a Peugeot 308 "were victims of automatic weapon fire from a vehicle which was following them", at the level of the interchange between the A84 and the departmental D15, near Coglès, 60 km north of Rennes, indicated the public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc.
“The two passengers were shot, the uninjured driver accelerated and managed to escape the attackers by taking refuge in a dead end in the village of Portes du Coglais,” added the magistrate, without specifying the model of weapon used. .
Aged around twenty years (born between 2003 and 2005), the two injured, living in Rennes, were hospitalized but "their vital prognosis is not engaged", according to the prosecutor.
A link with the shooting in Rennes?
“A criminal investigation into attempted intentional homicide by an organized gang has been opened and entrusted to the Rennes research section,” indicated Philippe Astruc.
“The possibility of a link with the events in Blosne this weekend is one of the hypotheses studied,” he said.
On the night of March 9 to 10, a shooting left two injured, including one seriously in the Blosne district, in the south of Rennes.
The shootings were "sporadic, sometimes in bursts", the prosecutor then indicated.
“These facts, which could concern around ten people involved, appear to be part of the fight for control of the drug resale point located at Place de Banat”, a place already targeted by gunfire in early December, he said. .
The Alliance police union deplored in a press release "real scenes of war", saying it received calls from local residents describing "hooded men carrying Kalashnikov-type assault rifles".