A few days after a major shooting in Rennes, two men were injured by “automatic weapon fire” after a chase between two vehicles on the A84 motorway, near Coglès (Ille-et-Vilaine), 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 interchange between the A84 and the departmental D 15, near Coglès, 60 km north of the Breton capital, indicated the public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc.
“Their vital prognosis is not engaged”
“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. .
A resident of the town saw an injured man arrive in her yard, asking for help.
“It’s scary,” she told Ouest-France.
Aged around twenty years old (born between 2003 and 2005), the two injured people, living in Rennes, were hospitalized, but “their vital prognosis is not in jeopardy”, according to the prosecutor.
“A criminal investigation into attempted intentional homicide by an organized gang has been opened and entrusted to the Rennes research section,” indicated Philippe Astruc.
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“The possibility of a link with the events in the Blosne district this weekend is one of the hypotheses studied,” he said.
On the night of March 9 to 10, a shooting left two people injured, one seriously in this neighborhood, in the south of Rennes.
The shootings were “sporadic, sometimes in bursts”, the prosecutor then indicated.
“Real war scenes”
“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”.