A man, suspected of having killed his daughter's ex-boyfriend on Saturday in Seclin, in the suburbs of Lille (North), was indicted Monday for homicide.

Aged 39 and without a criminal record, he was arrested on Saturday, suspected of having shot dead a young man of 25, and seriously injured another 21-year-old who accompanied the victim.

He is also indicted for willful violence.

The prosecution requested his placement in pre-trial detention, according to the Lille deputy prosecutor, Virginie Girard.

The weapon belonged to the indicted

The man "had been the victim for several weeks of repeated behavior of harassment" on the part of the victim, in particular the damage inflicted on vehicles belonging to him, the magistrate had indicated on Sunday.

The young man who died was the subject of a complaint filed by the daughter of the accused for "domestic violence and rape".

The young girl had been living with her father for a month.

The weapon, which was found, an automatic pistol, belonged to the indicted.

The firefighters had been called for an accident involving a motorcycle, but had discovered on the spot "a bullet in the thorax of the driver", while "the passenger had a bullet in the back", according to the Departmental Directorate of public security.

"The open judicial information will determine" the precise circumstances of the tragedy, but "it emerges from the procedure that it is not at the time of the chase that the shots were fired but before," said the prosecutor. assistant.

The victim's father sentenced for death threats

Also placed in police custody on Saturday, for death threats against the family of the alleged shooter, the father of the young man who died was tried on Monday and sentenced to three months in prison with probationary suspension.

These threats had been "uttered by telephone" and "reiterated during police custody," said Virginie Girard.

On social networks, relatives of the deceased young man called for a rally on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the scene of the tragedy.

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Lille: Suspected of having killed her daughter's ex-boyfriend, a 39-year-old man must be referred on Monday

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Lille: A man killed and another wounded by gunshots in Seclin

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