Former soldier and activist of the ultra-right Groupe Union Défense (GUD) movement Loïk Le Priol has been remanded in custody for murder after the shooting death of former Argentinian rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu.
Loïk Le Priol was indicted on Friday in the judicial investigation opened for murder after the shooting death of former Argentinian rugby international Federico Martin Aramburu on March 19 in Paris and placed in pre-trial detention, said at the hearing. a liberty and detention judge. The 27-year-old former soldier and activist of the ultra-right Groupe Union Défense (GUD) movement was indicted on charges of “murder” and “possession of category B and C weapons”, learned AFP from a judicial source. He had been arrested on the night of March 22 to 23 in Hungary. He arrived Thursday evening in France and was placed in detention before being brought to justice on Friday.
Loïk Le Priol is suspected of having shot the 42-year-old former rugby international after an altercation in a bar in the sixth arrondissement of the capital, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. Arrived at the Paris court on Friday morning, he was presented to the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, who notified him of his indictment for “murder”. A judge of freedoms and detention then ordered his placement in pre-trial detention.
“Without surprise”
The judge justified the detention “without surprise”, in particular with regard to the “versions which must be confronted” between the suspects and the risk of “reiteration” because of a “course of violence”. “My client does not wish to make more statements than those he made in the context of the proceedings before the judge,” said Loïk Le Priol’s lawyer, Me Xavier Nogueras, after the hearing. The latter had called for a debate behind closed doors, believing that his client’s family was undergoing “explicit death threats, in particular by people who claim to be from the Basque community, the far left and the ultraleft”.
At the start of the hearing, Loïk Le Priol, brown hair combed to the side, black mustache, stood straight in the box when his lawyer spoke, hands clasped in front of him. The former marine commando, who was the subject of a European arrest warrant, was arrested on the night of March 22 to 23 in Hungary, at the Zahony border post as he was preparing to go to Ukraine.
In this investigation, two other people were indicted and remanded in custody. Loïk Le Priol is known for his radicalism and violence. Its anchorage to the ultra-right earned it to be “file S” by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), sources familiar with the matter told AFP.