A 17-year-old young man was arrested in Sarcelles in Val d’Oise on Tuesday. He is suspected of having shot and killed a young man of Afghan origin in Colmar on August 14th. The Afghan refugee was passing through the Haut-Rhin and was killed by a bullet in the chest.
A 17-year-old young man suspected of having shot and killed a young Afghan refugee on August 14 in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), was arrested on Tuesday in Sarcelles (Val d’Oise) after more than a week on the run, we learned from sources close to the investigation. The arrest took place around 1:30 p.m. and “the person was placed in police custody”, detailed prosecutor Catherine Sorita-Minard, in a press release. “Investigations are continuing,” she added.
Passing through Colmar, the 27-year-old Afghan refugee, in France since 2017, was killed by a bullet in the chest. He had asked the driver of a noisy scooter to move away, before a fight broke out and a shot was fired.
The alleged shooter and an accomplice, one of whom is 17 years old and the other just an adult, had since fled to the great despair of the relatives of the victim, whose coffin was to be repatriated on Tuesday to Afghanistan.
Employed in a car factory in Mulhouse, Abdul Quayyeem Ahmadzai had a wife and four young children who remained in Afghanistan, according to his friends. Around 200 people gathered around his coffin on Monday for a funeral ceremony at the Grand Mosque in Paris.
On Twitter, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reacted by writing: “The police always win in the end. Thank you to the investigators for their hard work”.