Overview

• Investigators are focusing on a 30‑member Stade Brestois ultras offshoot known as Section Ouest, which is being examined as a possible source of the assaults.
• The inquiry follows the Sept. 20 attack at the Café de la plage, where about 30 masked assailants in black used tear gas and baseball bats on patrons before fleeing.
• The Brest prosecutor has opened an investigation for aggravated violence and aggravated property damage, and no broad arrests have been disclosed so far.
• Sous‑préfet Jean‑Philippe Setbon said authorities are committing all available means to identify and locate the perpetrators.
• Roughly a thousand people demonstrated in Brest on Sept. 26 in response to the recent assaults, with crowd estimates ranging from 800 by the prefecture to 2,000 by organizers, as reporting situates the events within a broader rise of far‑right influence among football supporters in Brittany.