The man, suspected of having killed cold blood with the automatic weapon, in mid-July, an employee of Bouygues in the streets of Abidjan, opened fire on the agents who came to arrest him.
Le Monde with AFP
The alleged author of the murder, perpetrated in mid-July, of a Frenchman in Côte d’Ivoire, was “neutralized”, otherwise killed on Monday by the police, according to a press release from the Public Prosecutor D ‘Abidjan, published Wednesday August 10 by the Ivorian press.
“The investigations, as well as the hearings of the witnesses, made it possible to challenge” Monday “one of the respondents”, said the press release, adding that “on the indication of the latter”, the police Made in the Adjamé district of Abidjan to “arrest” a “second thug”. At the sight of the police, he shot them and “the response made it possible to neutralize it”, according to the press release.
The alleged accomplice must be referred on Wednesday before the Abidjan Criminal Court “to answer for the acts of flight committed at night in a meeting, with weapon of arms and violence that led to death”, according to the prosecutor who specifies that He “faces imprisonment for life”.
“voluntary homicide”
During the night of July 17 to 18, this 31 -year -old Frenchman, an employee of the Bouygues group, had “been coldly killed by two individuals armed with automatic pistols (…) after a dinner in a restaurant” and while he returned home with a friend in the Marcory district of Abidjan, recalls the prosecutor.
They had been followed by the two men circulating on a motorcycle who stole “various objects”, but, before fleeing, one of them had opened fire, killing the young Frenchman, specifies-t -il.
An investigation for “voluntary homicide” was opened in Paris after this murder, entrusted to the central office for the repression of violence to people (OCRVP), said the Paris prosecutor’s office solicited by AFP on August 3 .
