- Three people were arrested and charged in Marseille for a murder committed in 2019 in Alsace.
- This murder takes place in the context of drug trafficking, but the motive remains to be determined.
Three people arrested last week in Marseille were indicted for the murder of a man in Alsace in 2019, we learned Thursday from the specialized interregional jurisdiction (Jirs) of Nancy, which piloted the investigation . The motive for this murder, which occurred on August 15, 2019 in a parking lot in Kingersheim, near Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), "remains (…) to be determined," said the Jirs' prosecutor's office in a statement.
In the aftermath of the facts, the Mulhouse public prosecutor's office had mentioned a probable "settlement of accounts" in the context of a narcotics case but, "in the state of the investigation", this lead is not yet confirmed, a have we indicated with the prosecution.
One dead, one injured
Driving a car, a hooded man had fired a semi-automatic pistol at the three occupants of a vehicle, killing the driver and injuring a passenger's head. The third person was able to escape without being hit. The shooter had managed to flee.
Following "heavy investigations" carried out by the PJ of Mulhouse on commission rogatory of an examining magistrate of the Nancy Jirs, "ten people" were placed in police custody "last week" in Marseille, near D 'one year after the facts, said the court in its press release.
Murder, attempted murder and complicity
Among these suspects, two individuals, 23 and 24 years old at the time of the events and presenting "a heavy criminal record", were put under examination by the investigating judge of the Jirs for murder and attempted murder, according to the press release . A third person from Marseille, "suspected of having participated in the preparation of the displacement of the criminals in Alsace", was meanwhile indicted for complicity in murder, according to the press release from Jirs.
The victim, a 39-year-old Mulhouse man nicknamed "Blue-eyed Samir", was known to the police for narcotics cases but had only been convicted of criminal offenses, said a source familiar with the matter. The injured man, another 47-year-old Mulhouse man, was also known to have been involved in narcotics.
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