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Clément Follain / 20 Minutes
A 27-year-old man was indicted on Saturday in Bergerac for manslaughter after the shooting death of a young person of the same age on Thursday, during a New Year's Eve under the theme of a gangster television series, he said. we learned from a judicial source.
The suspect, originally from Dordogne but living in Ain, was indicted with the aggravating circumstance of the manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of caution, said the public prosecutor in Bergerac, Odile de Fristch.
He was released under judicial supervision.
The first elements of the investigation proved the absence of intentional character of the homicide, the shooter thinking the weapon discharged, it was specified from the same source.
Several young people in their twenties, former high school friends, met Thursday in a house in Monbazillac, near Bergerac, for a fancy dress party, inspired by the successful British television series "Peaky Blinders" on gangsters In the 1920's.
Four weapons were brought by participants and were handled by the young people during photo ops reenacting scenes from the series.
It was from one of these weapons, a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun belonging to the shooter's father - who was also heard - that the fatal shot was fired.
The weapon had however been activated several times before in the evening, without any blow leaving.
But this weapon, which had not been cleaned or used for a long time, had been stored in conditions which could have altered its mechanism, until several successive manipulations on Thursday released it, according to the hypothesis favored by the 'investigation pending a ballistic expertise, said the prosecution.
A young man of 27, living in Agen, had been hit in the chest during the accident which occurred around 9:30 p.m., and died on the spot, without being able to be revived by the emergency services.
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