A man imprisoned after a shooting murder in Sarcelles

A young man was imprisoned on Friday, suspected of being linked to the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) at the end of December, AFP learned on Saturday from the Pontoise prosecutor's office, confirming information from the

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The suspect was indicted for "murder in an organized gang" and remanded in custody, the prosecution said.

Aged 24, he was born in Haiti, said this source.

The victim, a 22-year-old Guyanese, was shot dead on December 29 around 6:50 p.m. in Sarcelles, in the Paris suburbs.

While driving his car on a secondary road, he was fatally hit, and died of his injuries despite the intervention of the emergency services.

The track of revenge is privileged

"Individuals were seen fleeing", according to a police source, reporting "several detonations".

The investigation, entrusted to an examining magistrate, continues, entrusted to the judicial police of Versailles.

The qualification adopted for these facts, as an organized gang, suggests the involvement of one or more accomplices.

At this stage of the investigations, the track of a homicide against the background of revenge is privileged, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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