2023-06-23 13:30:54
He is not, for the moment, the subject of any legal proceedings. The mayor of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) Gilles Bourdouleix was taken into police custody for several hours on Monday in Angers as part of the investigation into the death of a young woman and her little brother during the fire. artifice of July 14, 2022, we learned from concordant sources.
Gilles Bourdouleix (DVD), contacted by AFP, said he was taken into custody and questioned in the morning by investigators, confirming information revealed by Ouest-France. He was released without charge in the early evening, according to the mayor and a source close to the investigation.
Two other officials of the association organizing the fireworks, Cholet Evénements, were also placed in police custody and heard during the afternoon before being released, add the elected official and the Breton daily. The Angers prosecutor’s office, joined by AFP, had neither confirmed nor denied the information in the middle of the evening.
“Totally unjustified” police custody
The seven-year-old boy and his 24-year-old sister, who came with their family, were killed when several projectiles fell in the middle of a group of spectators a few dozen meters from the launch pad, following a block malfunction firing of the fireworks in the center of Cholet around 11 p.m.
An investigation for homicide and involuntary injuries had been opened following this tragedy. She had been entrusted to the Departmental Security of Maine-et-Loire and to the police station of Cholet.
The mayor of the city, who responded to a court summons sent several days ago, protests that, according to him, he was kept in a cell all afternoon on Monday, from 1:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., without being questioned. , before being released without charge at the beginning of the evening. “It’s a real scandal,” he said. With Ouest-France, the city councilor also denounced a relentlessness “and a police custody” totally unjustified “.
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