The man “was present near the murderer during the murder” of Luc Pouvin, in 2015 near Grenoble, according to the prosecution. He had been sentenced to eight months in prison for carrying a weapon.
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The 25-year-old man suspected of shooting dead a municipal officer in Grenoble (Isère) on Sunday had already been convicted in a murder case, announced Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant. The man, who was 16 at the time, “was present near the murderer during the murder” by Luc Pouvin, in 2015 near Grenoble. He had been sentenced to eight months in prison for carrying a weapon.
On June 20, 2015, a man was killed in Saint-Martin-d’Hères, a suburb of Grenoble. In 2019, the murderer was sentenced on appeal to 15 years in prison. He was accompanied on the day of the murder by the man suspected of killing a municipal agent in Grenoble. The latter, then a minor, had been heard as a witness during the assize trials (at first instance and on appeal), according to the lawyers for the various parties to Le Parisien.
“The shooter and the suspect were both on a roof, with the intention of causing harm. He was armed, he didn’t shoot but he didn’t do anything to stop his friend from pulling the trigger either,” Jimmy Pouvin, the brother of the young man shot dead in 2015, told France Bleu Isère.
A judicial investigation for “murder” and “unintentional injury” has been opened by the public prosecutor’s office in the case of the municipal agent killed. The suspect, who is still on the run, has also already been convicted of violence in 2023.