Five complaints were filed. Tuesday, June 6, the demonstration against the pension reform had a bitter taste for several militants of insubordinate France and the Left Party of Rennes. The day before, five activists explained that they had been attacked by “a group of hooded men” and armed while they were sticking up posters, according to LFI deputy Frédéric Mathieu. The facts would have taken place on the night of June 5 to 6 in Rennes. According to a press release from the deputy, the activists were attacked “by a group of hooded men armed with truncheons, baseball bats and tear gas canisters”,
The public prosecutor of Rennes, Philippe Astruc confirmed that five complaints had been filed Tuesday at the Rennes police station. “An investigation for intentional violence in a meeting has been entrusted to the departmental security of Rennes”, he specified. “Five people are injured, all are shocked by the violence and the speed of the attack,” reports LFI deputy Frédéric Mathieu.
For him, “it is now necessary to take the measure of this event in the continuum of extreme right-wing violence on our territory”. “The sluggishness of the state in the face of the situation of the mayor of Saint-Brevin encourages violence by maintaining a feeling of impunity”, deplores Frédéric Mathieu. Target of threats, the mayor of the commune of Loire-Atlantique had resigned after being the target of an arson attack.
This is not the first attack on political activists in Rennes. At the end of March, several students had been beaten up in Beaulieu. The latter had accused a far-right group of being behind this attack. The demonstration against the pension reform brought together between 5,500 and 10,000 people on Tuesday in Rennes.