It was around 5:45 p.m., according to some witnesses, when a young man in his twenties was killed on Monday June 13 in the middle of the avenue de Rochester street in the Maurepas district of Rennes. The victim received one or more stab wounds to the chest. The firefighters, then the SAMU intervened to try to resuscitate the victim but in vain.
The area was cordoned off by the police with traffic prohibited in both directions. In the middle of the evening, the investigators were still on site to make a series of findings. A white tent was erected at the scene of the tragedy.
A settling of scores between rival gangs is the cause of this murder according to witnesses on the spot. This drama occurs in a tense context in the neighborhood. Friday, June 10, a brawl broke out and a man was injured. A few hours later shots were fired at a building in rue de la Motte-Brûlon.