His custody lasted four days. A 16-year-old minor, suspected of being one of the perpetrators of the shooting that left one dead and four injured in Paris on Monday July 18, has been indicted, Agence France-Presse learned on Saturday. , from judicial sources.
The teenager was indicted on Friday evening for “murder in an organized gang, attempted murder in an organized gang, acquisition and possession without authorization of weapons of categories A and B in a meeting, and association of criminals with a view to crimes and misdemeanors,” 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. Injured during the incident by witnesses who held him down, pending the arrival of the police, he was hospitalized, she said. His accomplice was still at large on Saturday, the source added.
Two men targeted
Monday around 9:30 p.m., a car stopped in front of a café on rue Popincourt, in the XIe capital district. Two individuals got out, before targeting, with firearms, two men seated on the terrace. One of the two men, aged 38, was killed. Four people were injured, but not by bullets, according to the first elements collected by the police headquarters.
“We saw a car coming, they came out with a weapon – I would have said a submachine gun or a Kalashnikov – they fired and they left”had testified to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Antoine, owner of a nearby restaurant. “We heard gunshots and then we saw a guy getting into the car. (…) part in a whirlwind. And then we heard screams.”had told Martin and Lucas who were having a drink on the terrace.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the thesis of the settlement of scores is preferred. The prosecution, which had opened a preliminary investigation for “murder and attempted murder in an organized gang” in particular, reclassified the facts as “murder and attempted murder in an organized gang”, during the opening of the judicial investigation on Friday .
The investigations are entrusted to the criminal brigade and the 2e judicial police district. The town hall of the XIe district 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.