The individual had turned himself in to the police on Tuesday. The 25-year-old man is believed to be the suspected gunman in the shooting that left one dead and four wounded last week.
The suspect arrested after the shooting that left one dead and four wounded, all minors, last week in Poitiersis to be presented to an examining magistrate on Thursday with a view to a possible indictment for “murderannounced the public prosecutor. This 25-year-old man, considered to be the presumed shooter, “will be referred to the Poitiers public prosecutor’s office today to be presented to an examining magistrate with a view to opening a judicial investigation into: murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon and drug trafficking”.said the Poitiers public prosecutor, Cyril Lacombe, in a press release.
On Tuesday, the suspect turned himself in to the police in Paris, where he was taken into custody. He was then transferred to Poitiers. His identity has been verified, “corresponds to that of the presumed perpetrator of the shootings, who was the subject of a search warrant issued by the Poitiers public prosecutor’s office”.said the public prosecutor.
According to the public prosecutor, the man is already known to the law for drug trafficking and violence. He has also been charged with possession of firearms. Marseilleaccording to a police source. The search warrant issued by the public prosecutor’s office targeted a man who “was allegedly involved in the sale of narcotics”. in the Couronneries district, where the shooting took place on the evening of October 31st.
Ammunition found
During a search of a dwelling he had allegedly occupied, seven rounds of ammunition of the same calibre as the 11 found on the premises, along with “partial parts of a dismantled weapon”.were seized by the police. The shooting took place in front of a kebab restaurant, while a Halloween party organized by an association had gathered many young people nearby.
Commenting on the incident on Friday morning on BFMTV/RMC, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau erroneously stated that“a brawl between rival gangs”. had then pitted “several hundred people”. According to the police and the public prosecutor’s office, brief scuffles involved only a few dozen people among the crowd present, and the forces of law and order quickly put an end to them.
On Thursday, the Minister of the Interior link this case to drug trafficking in the Marseilles area. “Behind this murder, as that of young Nicolas (the victim of a fatal bullet outside a nightclub in Saint-Peray in the Ardèche, editor’s note), there is the hand of the Marseille mafia. I can confirm that the hand of the DZ mafia was behind Nicolas’ death and that, for the murder of the young man in Poitiers, there was another Marseille clan”.he told Sud Radio.
“There’s a form of export, a bit like a company, which from a base, from a completely gangrenous territory, is in the process of exporting and conquering, setting up branches all over medium-sized towns.”he assured us. 15-year-old teenager killed “had no delinquency problems”.His mother’s lawyer, Yasmina Djoudi, stressed this weekend. According to her, the boy “told his mother he was going to buy a sandwich before going home. And he was shot.”.
He “had absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking”Léonore Moncond’huy, the ecologist mayor of Poitiers, added on Monday, calling on the Minister of the Interior to “re-establish the truth”..