2023-09-21 03:59:37
He is suspected of having killed a sixty-year-old using a harpoon in the Guadeloupe archipelago. The suspect, born in 1985, was indicted Tuesday evening by an investigating judge for murder and placed in pre-trial detention, said Caroline Gaussen-Calbo, public prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre, this Wednesday evening.
The events occurred early Sunday afternoon in Grand-Bourg on the island of Marie-Galante, as part of “an old dispute”, according to the same source. The victim, aged 66, was fatally injured by a harpoon arrow, “in front of his family”. “There are several witnesses,” specifies the magistrate.
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The firefighters had been notified to intervene on the Route des Basses, near the beach of the same name. The victim was in cardiac arrest and was declared dead by the emergency department doctor.
The suspect has “some criminal history”, the prosecution indicated on Sunday. Suffering from “some injuries whose origin (remained) to be determined”, according to the same source, he was transported to hospital before being taken into police custody.
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