Europe 1 with AFP 5:16 p.m., August 23, 2022

A man was arrested in Sarcelles in the Val d'Oise on Tuesday.

He is suspected of having shot and killed a young man of Afghan origin in Colmar on August 14th.

The Afghan refugee was passing through the Haut-Rhin and was killed by a bullet in the chest.

A man suspected of having shot and killed a young Afghan refugee on August 14 in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), was arrested Tuesday in Sarcelles (Val d'Oise) after more than a week on the run, a-t- we learned from sources close to the investigation.

Passing through Colmar, the 27-year-old Afghan refugee, in France since 2017, was killed by a bullet in the chest.

He had asked the driver of a noisy scooter to move away, before a fight broke out and a shot was fired.

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