The suspect arrested after the shooting that left one dead and four wounded, all minors, last week in Poitiers, was charged on the afternoon of Thursday, November 7, with “murder”the prosecutor’s office announced. This 25-year-old man, considered the alleged shooter, “He was charged and placed in preventive detention”Poitiers prosecutor Cyril Lacombe said in a press release.
The suspect went to the Paris police on Tuesday, where he was arrested. He was subsequently transferred to Poitiers to be presented before an investigating judge in order to open a judicial investigation for “murder, attempted murder, possession of weapons and drug trafficking.” Your identity, which could be verified, “corresponds to that of the alleged perpetrator of the shooting who was the subject of a search warrant issued by the Poitiers prosecutor’s office”the prosecutor said.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the man is already known in court for drug trafficking and violence. He was also charged with weapons possession in Marseille, according to a police source. The search warrant issued by the prosecution targeted a man who “he would have dedicated himself to the sale of narcotics” in the Couronneries neighborhood, site of the shooting that occurred on the afternoon of October 31.
A link to drug trafficking in Marseille, according to Bruno Retailleau
During a search of a home that he allegedly occupied, seven ammunition of the same caliber as the eleven found at the scene were found, as well as “partial elements of a disassembled weapon”They were confiscated by the police. The shooting occurred in front of a kebab restaurant, while a Halloween party organized by an association brought together numerous young people nearby.
Commenting on the events on Friday morning on BFMTV/RMC, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrongly stated that“a fight between rival gangs” then he objected “several hundred people”. According to the police and prosecutor’s office, the brief clashes involved only a few dozen people in the crowd and the police quickly put an end to them.
On Thursday, the Minister of the Interior established a link between this case and drug trafficking in the Marseille metropolitan area. “Behind this murder, like that of young Nicolás [victime la même nuit d’une balle mortelle devant une discothèque à Saint-Peray en Ardèche]there is the hand of the Marseille mafia. I confirm that behind Nicolas’ death is the hand of the DZ mafia and that, for the murder of the young man in Poitiers, there is another Marseille clan.”he said on Sud Radio. “There is a form of export, a bit like a company, that from a base, from a completely gang territory, exports and conquers, installing branches in all medium-sized cities”he assured.
The 15-year-old murdered “I didn’t have late payment problems”his mother’s lawyer, Mᵉ Yasmina Djoudi, stressed this weekend. According to her, the child “He told his mother he was going to buy a sandwich before he went home. And they shot him.”. He “It had absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking”added the environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, on Monday, asking the Minister of the Interior to “restore the truth”.
