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Ille-et-Vilaine. The ten stories that left their mark on you the most in 2021

A rave party in full curfew, footballers in panties, a missing mother, a hunting accident… Here are the ten most viewed stories this year among all the subjects published on the web pages of our editorial staff. Rennes, Saint-Malo, Fougères, Window and Redon.

Footballers deprived of shorts, play in panties

It is the most read article this year in Ille-et-Vilaine. On March 7, on the eve of Women’s Rights Day, the players of CPB Rennes had trained with their only Coupe de France jersey, since the Federation did not provide shorts or socks, unlike their male counterparts. An unusual way of denounce inequalities in football. Not enough to move the lines so far. This fall, the Rennes players once again have only one Federation jersey. Again, they reappeared in panties, before a match. But the Federation has pledged to provide a full outfit starting in the 2022 season.

The disappearance of Magali Blandin

There were hundreds of them scouring the countryside, around Montfort-sur-Meu, to find Magali Blandin, who disappeared one morning in February. For weeks, the 42-year-old mother could not be found. His body will finally be exhumed in the forest on March 20, after her husband, Jérôme Gaillard, confessed. The couple had been separated for six months. In custody, he told the gendarmes that he went to find her at her home one morning and beat her with a baseball bat.

An extraordinary affair, which experienced yet another twist eight months later, with the suicide of Jérôme Gaillard in his cell in Vezin-le-Coquet prison. Despite his death, the investigation continues. Three people remain indicted in this case. The husband’s parents, aged 72 and 75, suspected of aiding and abetting murder and imprisoned. And a 40-year-old Georgian, neighbor of Jérôme Gaillard, suspected of having destroyed a car used to transport Magali’s body.

A rave party in the middle of a curfew

The rave-parties will have punctuated the year in Ille-et-Vilaine. 1is January, around 2,500 people gathered in a hangar in Lieuron, to celebrate the New Year, despite the curfew. The next day, the gendarmes cordoned off the area and proceeded to more than 1,600 verbalizations. Eight people were taken into custody.

In June, in Redon this time, a big rave party, also banned, found a more dramatic outcome. A 22-year-old man had his hand torn off during clashes with the gendarmes. Police forces had ended the party by destroying the sound equipment, in a cloud of tear gas.

A 10-year-old child confined in a car

Tested positive for covid-19 in a school in Rennes, a 10 year old boy was good for ten days of isolation at home, as required by protocol. Except that the child, Georgian, had been living for months with his 49-year-old mother and 15-year-old brother in a car in Blosne. Despite the mobilization of associations, it was impossible to find a place in accommodation. The boy will spend two nights in the car before obtaining a place in a specialized accommodation center, to continue his isolation.

Élodie, 34, loses her fight against cancer

Has a severe form of breast cancer, triple negative metastasis, Élodie Drouin died on October 12. At the end of August, we had met her at her home in Sainte-Colombe. She shared her hope of continuing to see her children grow up. With Cédric, his brother, they had created “Élodie, a hope for life”, an association to talk about the disease, and launched a kitty to finance expensive treatments in Germany. A part, around 100,000 €, was to be donated for research and associations.

Deadly shooting in Rennes

It is 1:45 p.m., this Wednesday, March 17, in the Cleunay district. In front of the Carrefour City, gunshots broke out. A man, accompanied by an accomplice, just shot a group of five people. One of them is hit in the head. Hamzat Labazanov, 30, died the next day at Rennes University Hospital. His brother, Suleiman was also injured without his life being in danger. The alleged shooter was arrested on the same day as the incident and indicted for murder in an organized gang and imprisoned. The drama had caused great emotion in Rennes (against the backdrop of a sharp increase in violence linked to drug trafficking) and in the Chechen community, where the two brothers came from.

Tragic four-lane hunting accident

An accident as improbable as it is dramatic performed on the four-way between Rennes and Nantes, this Saturday, October 30. A 67 year old man was hit in the neck by a bullet while driving near Laillé. He died five days later in hospital. At his side, the passenger escaped unscathed. Very quickly, on the spot, the gendarmes questioned the hunters near the expressway. A 69-year-old hunter, suspected of being the author of the fatal shot, has since been indicted for manslaughter.

The crush for 100,000 bottles sold off at the wholesaler

The day was not up, that dozens of motorists were already waiting this February 5, to take advantage of the giant destocking of 100,000 bottles soft drinks and alcohols, at a wholesaler in the Rennes area. The company, which usually delivers drinks to cafes, hotels, restaurants and communities, had been at a standstill since the end of October 2020, because of the covid. She had decided to liquidate her stocks at cut prices. An unexpectedly successful sale, which caused up to 3 km of traffic jams to access the warehouses.

Wilhem, beaten up in the middle of the afternoon in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande

Last summer hundreds of locals walked in honor of Wilhem Houssin and against drug trafficking in the Morinais district in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, where the dealers are well established. Wednesday July 21, Wilhem Houssin, 49 years old, was badly beaten up in the city center, in the middle of the afternoon, after an altercation. The musician, father of two children, died three days later. Five suspects, aged 17 to 21, had been indicted for murder and remanded in custody. In Saint-Jacques, residents and elected officials blame this tragedy on drug traffickers, who do not hesitate, according to testimonies, to intimidate the inhabitants to hold their territory.

The excitement after the death of a young apprentice cook

A former student of the Yvon-Bourges hotel school in Dinard, the young cook Thomas Nédelec, won the title of best apprentice in France, in the kitchen, in 2019. He died Monday, December 13, a week after a serious traffic accident. His sudden death caused a lively excitement in the catering industry in Brittany, and even in the kitchens of the Élysée, where Thomas had completed an internship: “You had a bright future ahead of you, your passion and your work were already known to everyone”, paid homage to him Guillaume Gomez, president of the cooks of the Republic.

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