A farmer from the Marne was charged and placed in pre-trial detention. He is suspected of having seriously wounded with a hunting rifle a young man of 19 years who tried to steal fuel in his farm, said on Monday the prosecution of Reims.
On the night of Friday to this Saturday, several people "likely to belong to the community of travelers" stole fuel from a farm in Ambrières, reported the prosecutor of the Republic of Reims Matthieu Bourrette. The farmer, warned by an anti-intrusion device, alerted the gendarmerie and went on site with his brother, each armed with a hunting rifle with lead cartridges.
A man between life and death
According to the magistrate, this 46-year-old operator, with no criminal record, "fired twice in the air to make the thieves flee, and once in the direction of one of them, notably attacking him. 'small intestine and colon'. The young man aged 19, also without a criminal record, was this Sunday between life and death.
According to the prosecution, the farmer challenged in police custody "any intention of murder" and said he was "panicked". He said that "this episode followed numerous complaints of multiple fuel thefts he had suffered for several years, and again several times in the past month."
He was charged with attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention. Judicial information, entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie of Reims, is also open for theft to identify and find the thieves.
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