Le Figaro Nantes
The Rennes public prosecutor's office announced the indictment, at the beginning of February, of three teenagers, suspected of being the perpetrators of one of the multiple shootings which broke out in Nantes in May 2023. The three minors were arrested on 30 janvier au 2 février et doivent répondre des chefs de «tentative de meurtre en bande organisée« et «d'association de malfaiteurs«.
The three adolescents are prosecuted within the framework of a judicial information opened on November 2, 2023 by the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Rennes.
The magistrates have been responsible since last fall to clarify the circumstances of the shooting which took place in Nantes, on the night of May 27 to 29.
Occurred on rue de Saint-Brévin, in the west of the agglomeration, the firearm attack had seriously injured the 27-year-old man, himself sought by justice in a murder dating from 2019.
Liens avec le narcotrafic
He was in fact involved
“in a separate case followed by an investigating magistrate from Nantes, in particular for kidnapping and aggravated willful violence”,
specifies to Le
Figaro
Philippe Astruc, public prosecutor of Rennes.
According to our colleagues from
Ouest France
, the individual was one of the kidnappers involved in the astonishing nighttime chase through the Nantes metropolitan area at the end of January.
Although
“not necessarily linked to each other”
, according to the Nantes prosecutor's office, these violent episodes testified to struggles between different groups of drug traffickers for control of a few deal points.
Pascal Bolo, at the time municipal deputy in charge of security, then spoke of
“a national problem of industrialization of drug trafficking”
, which went beyond Nantes.