The two main suspects in the assassination of a young Afghan in Colmar on Sunday August 14, 2022 were indicted this Friday for assassination, said in a press release the public prosecutor of Colmar Catherine Sorita-Minard.

“That is to say murder with premeditation, and violations of the legislation on weapons, for having acquired, possessed, transferred, a weapon of category B, in this case an automatic pistol, in a meeting” specifies the prosecution.

“Co-author and not author and accomplice”

The investigating magistrate “thus considered at this stage of the investigation that there were serious or concordant indications that they were co-authors, and not author and accomplice.

“One of the two suspects is a minor, born in 2005 in Colmar and a young adult, born in 2004, originally from Vannes but also domiciled in Colmar.

“Both have significant criminal records despite their young age adds the prosecution;

they have both already been followed by the services of the judicial protection of youth and have been imprisoned in the past by decision of the juvenile court.

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The two young people were placed in pre-trial detention by decision of the judge of freedoms and detention, “to avoid any pressure on the witnesses and any consultation, and to avoid any recidivism”.

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