Charles Guyard (correspondent in Rennes) / Photo credit: DAMIEN MEYER / AFP 8:31 a.m., March 25, 2024

While the "clearance" operations desired by the executive are flourishing almost everywhere in the country, certain cities remain asphyxiated by drug trafficking. In Rennes for example, in the Blosne district, there are around ten deal points among the 17,000 residents who can't take it anymore, as Europe 1 noted.

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It is one of the most profitable sectors in Brittany for drug traffickers. In the Blosne district of Rennes, deal points are ruining the lives of the 17,000 residents who live nearby. “The residents, we take the cell phone out of their hands to find out if they have taken photos of the drug dealers for example,” confides, annoyed, a local resident met by Europe 1. We don’t see the drug dealers, but we can hear them clearly. the lookouts, those who, with a cry, raise the alarm when the police are patrolling, even in broad daylight.

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A few meters from a school full of children, this scene has become sadly commonplace in this neighborhood placed under the control of traffickers. “There are identity checks at the entrance to your building to find out if you are from here!”, alerts David Leveau, secretary of Brittany GP Police Force Ouvrière Unit. Surreal and paradoxical too, because those in control are not local.

Account books with astronomical amounts

"For some time now, we have had individuals who come from outside, given that we are 1h25 from Paris. Someone who comes from Seine-Saint-Denis will say to themselves that in Rennes there are fewer police officers. They come to go green here, to whom we pay the hotel, who sells the drugs and who returns to Paris", details the police officer. And beyond this greening, there is above all the lure of profit in this very lucrative area which includes more than ten deal points.

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“We sometimes find account books with 16,000 euros per day for a single dealer! We find ourselves with individuals armed with Kalashnikovs. It cuts a body in two, in bursts,” he worries. And among the inhabitants who live in terror. Like two weeks ago when a shooting broke out in the middle of the night. No casualties, it's a miracle. But stray bullets lodged in at least two apartments.