Assassination of an Afghan refugee in Colmar: two main suspects indicted and placed in detention

At this stage of the investigation, “serious or concordant indices” exist to consider that they are the “co -authors” of crime, and not author and accomplice as had been advanced at first.

Le Monde with AFP

After a run which had extended for almost ten days and a police custody, the two main suspects in the case of the Afghan refugee killed by bullet on August 14 in Colmar were indicted on Friday August 25 for assassination And placed in pre-trial detention, announced the public prosecutor of this city, Catherine Sorita-Minard.

The two young people aged 17 and 18 have also been indicted for offenses in arms law “in this case an automatic pistol, in a meeting,” she said in a statement.

At this stage of the investigation, “serious or concordant indices” exist to consider that they are the “co -authors” of this assassination, and not an author and an accomplice as had been advanced at first. The judicial information should “determine more precisely the role of each and if other people are involved”.

The first suspect was arrested on Tuesday in the middle of the day in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise). The following night, the second was arrested in Colmar, a few hundred meters from the crime location.

According to the prosecutor, the two young men, who “have important judicial history despite their young age”, had already been imprisoned by decision of the children’s court.

killed in the Thorax

Visit friends in friends in the Europe district of Colmar, a republican reconquest district (QRR) located west of the city, Abdul Quayyem Ahmadzai, 27 -year -old Afghan refugee, in France since 2017, Was killed in the thorax.

Unwelcome by the noises of a scooter when he was in the company of friends, he had asked the driver to move away. The latter then insulted it before returning with other people. A brawl had broken out between the two groups and a shot had been fired.

The young Afghan succumbed to his injuries to the hospital the following night. The autopsy confirmed that he had been reached by a single ball.

/Media reports.