A suspected drug trafficker was indicted and jailed on Tuesday for shooting a 39-year-old man in Verdun, Meuse, in July, because of a narcotics dispute, AFP told AFP. parquet of Nancy.
The suspect, born in 1995, was arrested on 1 August in Toulouse by the Regional Judicial Police Service (SRPJ), told AFP prosecutor, François Pérain, confirming information from the East Republican . After his custody, he was indicted for murder by an examining magistrate of the Nancy High Court, competent in criminal matters for the Meuse, and incarcerated.
The suspect already convicted of drug trafficking
Domiciled in Guadeloupe and already sentenced for drug trafficking, he was "prohibited from carrying or detaining a weapon subject to authorization for a period of five years, pronounced on January 11, 2019 by the Criminal Court of Pointe-à -Paper ", according to the prosecutor. The testimony of the companion of the victim, present at the time of the facts, DNA traces and the operation of a telephone line belonging to the suspect had allowed the investigators to locate it in Verdun the day of the facts.
While in police custody, he admitted to having shot at the victim, with whom he was in "conflict over the quality of the heroin resold in Verdun by traffickers located in the Paris region," said François Pérain. "These traffickers, of which the suspect was a part, accused the victim of distributing a substandard drug instead of their drug and substituting one product for another," he added. The alleged gunman, armed with a handgun and accompanied by two people, went to the house of the thirties on July 17 to ask for explanations, he said during his hearings.