A 22-year-old man was placed in pre-trial detention on the evening of Friday April 7 and then indicted for murders in an organized gang and attempted murder. He is suspected of being the author of the bursts of fire which claimed the lives of two men aged 28 and 34 on March 28 in Rennes.
That evening in March, he arrived on foot on the Gros Chêne slab, in the working-class district of Maurepas, and opened fire using an automatic weapon. A man born in Martinique and another born in Guyana had been killed. A third man had been injured. A little earlier in the day of March 28, the man had presented himself on the point of deal “to hold a heated discussion with his future victims, whom he left by threatening them”. He would have returned in the evening with a weapon in his hand. After the shooting, the man hidden under a motorcycle helmet fled on foot. He had been arrested on April 3 in Mayotte, where he had taken refuge.
A lot of money found at his girlfriend’s house
According to the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc, the respondent had left the mainland to land in the Comoros and had arrived in Mayotte by boat. “He asserted his right to silence throughout police custody,” said the magistrate. “The character of settling of scores linked to the trafficking of narcotics is very likely, even if the precise reasons for these attempted murders and murders have not yet been fully clarified at this stage”, he added. Born in Mamoudzou, the young man had no criminal record.
The defendant’s partner was also remanded in custody. Aged 20, this student born in the Comoros would have helped her boyfriend to leave the national territory the day after the killing. She was put on trial. “A large sum of cash was found at his home in Saint-Brieuc”.