Jean-Louis Leroux was released. The marnais farmer, indicted for attempted murder after seriously injuring the pellet gun with a young man suspected of stealing fuel from his farm, was released on Thursday, we learned from concordant sources.
The investigative chamber of the Reims court accepted the request to release the accused, now placed under judicial supervision, according to the Advocate General and his lawyer, Gérard Chemla.
Farmer support
About 600 farmers had expressed Thursday morning their support for this farmer before the court of appeal, during the hearing. "Fed up with thefts", "Free Jean-Louis Leroux", "Stop insecurity" could be read on the banners deployed by farmers of the FDSEA (Departmental Federation of Farmers' Unions) of Marne, initiator of the gathering, of Aube and of wine-growers of the General Syndicate of Vintners (SGV).
This release "is a bad signal and a guarantee given to a private justice", reacted Thomas Hellengrand, the lawyer of the young boy of 19 years, still in a coma, astonished that the attorney general, Jacques Louvier, expressed support for release on Thursday after opposing it in its written closing statement Wednesday evening.
He will have to go to the gendarmerie twice a week
The Attorney General justified his decision by the fact that the farmer found accommodation with his sister, 80 km from the farm where the tragedy occurred. Aged 46, he will have to go to the gendarmerie twice a week, is forbidden to go to the Marne and to get in touch with the people linked to the file.
The farmer had fired a pellet gun on the night of January 31 to February 1 on a group of suspected thieves of gas oil on his farm, seriously injuring the stomach of a 19-year-old young man belonging to the Traveler community. He said he was the victim of around 40 thefts in 2019 alone on his operation in Ambrières (Marne).
At the end of Jean-Louis Leroux's police custody, the Reims public prosecutor's office had requested provisional detention. Self-defense had not been accepted, "in the absence of an element of proportionality at this stage of the investigation". "We have no information on the intention to murder," pleaded his side Me Chemla, while Me Thomas Hellengrand considers the attack as a veritable "trap".
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