On the run since December 14 and the collision having killed Aymen, 14, a man was arrested Tuesday near Perpignan.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The man suspected of having mortally broke Aymen, 14, on December 14 in Montpellier, was arrested on Tuesday December 27 near Perpignan, announced the Montpellier prosecution. The collision had taken place in the La Paillade district, during the celebrations that followed the semi-final match of the Football World Cup between the French and Morocco teams.
“The respondent was arrested this morning early (…) by investigators from the territorial management of the Montpellier judicial police in execution of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge”, announced to the agency France-Presse (AFP) the public prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Bélargent, confirming information from France 3 Occitanie .
It will be presented Tuesday, during the day, to the instructor magistrate for his probable indictment as part of an open investigation for “mortal strokes aggravated in this case with weapon” (the vehicle). “For the family, I think it is a relief. Not because they have a spirit of revenge but because they want justice to pass,” reacted to AFP M Sup> Marc Gallix, lawyer for the Aymen family.
The driver had fled in the night of December 14 to 15 after struck Aymen, in circumstances that still remain to be lightened, in this north-west district of Montpellier. He had been quickly identified and was actively sought.
According to the first elements provided by the prosecution in the aftermath of the accident, the driver would have come out “violently” from his line of vehicles following the taking of a French flag which was held at the window of his car , during the celebrations after France’s victory against Morocco, after a historic semi-final. It was at this point that he would have hit the adolescent, who died shortly after his medical care.
This drama had aroused great emotion in Montpellier. During the following forty -eight hours, the La Paillade district had been plagued by violence between young people from the Maghreb community – more than 90 % of the inhabitants of the neighborhood, mainly Moroccan or Franco -Moroccans – and that of the Travelers , to which the driver would belong.
Tensions, marked by a tobacco passage and a punitive expedition, were descended after the calls for calm of the family of Aymen, managers of the Muslim and gypsy communities and local elected officials.
A thousand people paraded on December 20, white pink in hand, to pay a final tribute to the teenager. In front of the funeral center, his older brother once again called for “appeasement”, “prayer” and “meditation”.
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” it takes a lot of patience “, he added, before The young man’s coffin, covered with a green mortuary sheet, be carried in the ground in the Muslim square of the cemetery. Aymen was a “solar child, adorable, full of energy, joy and good humor”, had described his professor of history-geography.