More than a thousand people, mostly young people, gathered in the calm in the early afternoon Place de la République, at the call of Rennes collectives on social networks. An "unauthorized" demonstration according to the prefecture.
The police responded with numerous tear gas shots and the intervention of a water cannon. A mobile gendarme was wounded during these clashes. Eight people were arrested shortly after 17 p.m. The prosecutor's office, which denounced "serious" events, seized the territorial direction of the judicial police.