Loïk Le Priol, suspected of having shot and killed former Argentinian rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu on March 19 in Paris, was placed in judicial detention on Thursday March 31 upon his arrival at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport in from Budapest, said a judicial source contacted by AFP.

The 27-year-old young man, a former soldier and activist in the ultra-right Groupe Union Défense (GUD) movement, will be presented on Friday to an examining magistrate who must notify him of his indictment for "assassination", ten days after his arrest in Hungary.

The former marine commando, targeted by a European arrest warrant, was arrested on the night of March 22 to 23 at the Zahony border post near Ukraine where he claimed to want to fight.

He was to spend the night at the airport before his transfer to the Paris court on Friday, according to an airport source.

After its passage before the investigating judge, a hearing before the judge of freedoms and detention will have to rule on a judicial review or placement in pre-trial detention.

Romain Bouvier imprisoned

In this case, two other people have already been indicted and imprisoned.

Close to Loïk Le Priol, Romain Bouvier, 31, was indicted for "murder" and two offenses related to the possession of weapons.

Suspected of having also shot Aramburu, he was imprisoned in the prison of Health in Paris.

A 24-year-old woman, presented as the girlfriend of Loïk Le Priol, was also indicted for "complicity in murder" and placed in pre-trial detention.

She is suspected of having driven a vehicle belonging to Loïk Le Priol on the evening of the incident.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the 42-year-old former Argentinian rugby player was shot and killed after an altercation in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Près, Le Mabillon.

radicalism and violence

Loïk Le Priol is known for his radicalism and violence.

His anchorage to the ultra-right earned him to be "file S" by the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), sources familiar with the matter told AFP.

He must appear, like Romain Bouvier, in court in June for "aggravated violence" against a member of the GUD, whom they are suspected of having beaten and humiliated with three other members of the ultra-right movement.

Their judicial control prohibited them from making contact.

With AFP

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