It is a case that shocked beyond the world of rugby as the violence of the facts is unimaginable. Came to Paris to attend the match between France and England last Saturday at the Stade de France, the former Argentinian rugby player Federico Aramburu had arrived on Friday to spend the evening with friends. After an altercation with another group late at night, the 42-year-old man was targeted by two individuals who chased him through the streets of Paris and shot him several times in the back.
Quickly identified thanks to CCTV cameras, Loïk Le Priol, far-right activist, is the number one suspect in this case. On the run with an accomplice since Saturday, the latter was arrested in Hungary on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday according to information from AFP. Information provided by sources close to the case has been confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. Wanted for the assassination of Federico Aramburu, this 27-year-old man, a former soldier and member of the far-right GUD movement, known by the courts for other serious acts, has therefore been found, unlike his accomplice, Romain B., also active on the far right and who is still at large.
Woman charged with ‘complicity in murder’
In this case, a third person is involved. This is’a 24 year old young woman, who would be the companion of Loïk Le Priol. The latter was quickly arrested by the police on Saturday. She would have driven the car from which two men allegedly shot the former Argentinian international on a boulevard in the 6th arrondissement, around 6 a.m. on Saturday, according to a source close to the investigation. After her police custody, she was presented on Tuesday to an investigating judge of the Paris court who indicted her for “complicity in murder” and “refusal to submit the decryption convention of a means of cryptology”according to AFP.
Loïk Le Priol remains presumed innocent until the final closure of this case.