A 16-year-old minor, suspected of being one of the perpetrators of the shooting which left one dead and four injured in the 11th arrondissement of Paris on Monday evening, was indicted and imprisoned on Friday evening. According to a source close to the investigation, he is known to justice. An accomplice is still at large this Saturday.
A 16-year-old minor, suspected of being one of the perpetrators of the shooting which left one dead and four injured in Paris on Monday evening, has been indicted and imprisoned, AFP learned this Saturday from a judicial source. . After nearly four days in police custody, the teenager was indicted on Friday evening for “murder in an organized gang, attempted murder in an organized gang, acquisition and possession without authorization of category A weapons and B in a meeting, and association of criminals with a view to crimes and misdemeanors”, specified the judicial source.
He was placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution. According to a source close to the investigation, he is known to justice. Injured during the incident by witnesses who held him down while waiting for the police to arrive, he was hospitalized, she said.
An accomplice still at large
His accomplice was still at large on Saturday, the source added. Monday around 9:30 p.m., a car stopped in front of a café on rue Popincourt, in the 11th arrondissement of the capital.
Two individuals got out and aimed with firearms at two men seated on the terrace. One of the two men, aged 38, was killed and four people were injured but not by bullets, according to the first elements collected by the police headquarters.