A man was shot dead around 3 a.m. on the night of Friday to Saturday in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, boulevard de Clichy, following a dispute on the public highway, franceinfo learned on Saturday from a police source. A suspect is in custody, according to a judicial source. His partner was also arrested.
A brawl broke out around 2 a.m. on Boulevard de Clichy, according to a police source. Three individuals were hitting a fourth, when a fifth man drove by in a BMW. He parked his vehicle, got out, told them to stop but the three men sent him to graze. So he went back to his car, pulled out a Colt 45 and shot the person who insulted him, hitting him in the head and killing him instantly.
The man suspected of being the author of the shot fled but the police identified his car, a BMW, a few streets further, relates a police source. The agents approached, found that there was no one inside but that the engine was still hot. So they decided to monitor the vehicle.
A few moments later, an individual walked towards the vehicle, luggage in hand. Suddenly he spotted the officials, dropped his luggage, took out his gun and ran away. The police pursued him until they found him hiding, crouching in a recess, his weapon still in his hand. The police held him at gunpoint and the man ended up putting down his gun and lying on the ground.
The man was arrested around 3:50 a.m. and taken to the local reception and investigation service of the 17th arrondissement police station, where he was taken into custody. The police also arrested a 51-year-old woman, presented as her companion, and transported her to the second district of the judicial police (the 2nd DPJ) which is seized of the investigation.
The suspect arrested is Martial Lanoir, 50, according to a police source from franceinfo. The man, who says to himself “singer, tramp and YouTuber“, was noticed in September 2020 on the set of the show Balance Ton Post, presented by Cyril Hanouna, in which he had spread false information with a conspiratorial tendency on the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming in particular that Rivotril was injected in a lethal dose to the elderly in nursing homes.
He also sang a song to denounce a “gerontocidal” and intervened during demonstrations against health measures. He published videos on his Dailymotion channel in which he makes remarks similar to the positions of the far right.