The owner of the room where the main suspect accused of the murder of a police officer in Avignon on May 5 and a comrade during their flight had taken refuge was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.
He is being prosecuted for "criminal concealment and was placed under a committal warrant," said Philippe Guémas.
On May 5, Brigadier Eric Masson was killed during an ordinary intervention on a drug trafficking point in the center of Avignon.
Two other indictments
The suspected gunman and another young man who accompanied him fled and took refuge in a room, before attempting to flee to Spain four days later.
They were finally stopped about twenty kilometers from Avignon at a tollgate.
This new indictment brings to three the number of people prosecuted after this murder which aroused immense emotion and fueled the anger of the police, whose union representatives called for a “citizens' march” on Wednesday in Paris.
The suspected shooter, aged 19, was indicted for intentional homicide on a person holding public authority and attempted voluntary murder on a person holding public authority, and the second who accompanied him, aged 20 years old, is prosecuted for non-assistance to a person in danger and concealment of a criminal.
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