In the investigation into the assassination of former Argentinian rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, which occurred overnight from Friday to Saturday in Paris, a woman was arrested on Saturday afternoon, franceinfo learned on Monday March 21 from a source close to the case. Still in police custody on Monday, she is suspected of having been driving the car from which the first shots were fired at the victim.
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Two other suspects, two men, are still wanted, according to a source familiar with the matter at franceinfo. They are likely to be armed. All three, with the woman arrested, are members of the ultra-right. The main suspect, aged 28, is even known to the intelligence services to be an ultra-violent militant. Former member of the GUD, the far-right student union, he is to be tried on June 1 in a case of torture on a former comrade where he is notably indicted for “aggravated violence”.
In particular, checks were carried out on Monday March 21 at the private domain of the Octopus in Draguignan (Var), an establishment belonging to the father of the main suspect and in which the latter notably organized parties in full confinement, but the police did not have not found it on the spot and continue to look for it, according to information from France Bleu Provence.
Saturday morning, around 6:45 a.m., Federico Martin Aramburu died in front of his hotel hit by five bullets. A few minutes earlier, he ended his evening with a friend on the terrace of Mabillon, located on boulevard Saint-Germain, in the Saint-Germain-des-Près district of Paris (6th arrondissement). The two men had come to blows with two other customers and a young woman for a seemingly futile reason before being separated by the bouncers of the establishment, according to information from franceinfo.
According to a source familiar with the matter at franceinfo, his attackers returned by car. As the former rugby player was walking to his hotel, a Jeep stopped at his height. The first two shots were fired without hitting him. A man then chased and shot him six times, hitting him five times.
Federico Martin Aramburu, former Argentinian international, was 42 years old. He was the father of three young children. The former rugby player was in Paris to attend the match of the VI nations France-England tournament. The three-quarter had won the French championship twice with Biarritz Olympique in 2005 and 2006. He had also been president of the club’s Socios from 2015 to 2018.