He is suspected of being one of the authors of the shooting who killed one and four injured in Paris on Monday evening. It was placed in pre -trial detention, while the second suspect is still on the run.
Le Monde with AFP
His police custody will have lasted four days. A 16-year-old minor, suspected of being one of the authors of the shooting who left one dead and four injured in Paris on Monday, July 18, was indicted, learned the France-Presse agency on Saturday , from judicial source.
The teenager was indicted on Friday evening for “assassination in an organized gang, attempted assassination in organized gang, acquisition and detention without authorization of weapons of category A and B in meeting, and association of criminals In view of crimes and crimes, “said the judicial source. He was placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution.
According to a source close to the investigation, he is known to justice. Wounded during the facts by witnesses who maintained him, pending the arrival of the police, he was hospitalized, she said. His accomplice was still on the run on Saturday, added this source.
Two targeted men
Monday around 9:30 p.m., a car stopped in front of a Café rue Popincourt, in the Xi e arrondissement of the capital. Two individuals came out, before targeting, with firearms, two men attacked on the terrace. One of the two men, 38, was killed. Four people were injured, but not by bullet, according to the first elements collected by the police headquarters.
“We saw a car arriving, they went out with a weapon -I would have said a machine gun or a kalashnikov -they fired and they were barred,” testified to the France -Presse agency ( AFP) Antoine, boss of a nearby restaurant. “We heard shots and, afterwards, we saw a guy who was entering the car (…) Part in a rush. And there, we heard howls,” said Martin and Lucas who drank a glass on the terrace .
According to sources close to the file, the thesis of the settlement of accounts is privileged. The prosecution, which had opened a preliminary investigation for “murder and attempted murder in an organized gang” in particular, requalified the facts as “assassination and attempted assassination as an organized gang”, when the judicial information was opened on Friday .
Investigations are entrusted to the criminal brigade and at 2 e judicial police district. The town hall of the Xi e arrondissement of Paris, a district marked by the attacks of January and November 2015, opened Tuesday a medico-psychological emergency cell for the witnesses of the shooting.