A 15-year-old teenager was brought this Saturday morning before the Amiens prosecutor’s office, more than 48 hours after the shooting death of an 18-year-old young man, found shot dead in a car in the Saint-Ladre district, in the north of Amiens. In its press release this Saturday noon, the public prosecutor’s office in Amiens, which had opened an investigation for assassination, announced that it had asked the investigating magistrate to “indict the minor referred for the charge of assassination and request his placement in provisional detentione”.
“The context of this crime not established at this stage of the investigation”
The prosecution indicates that “several elements made it possible to formally identify“This 15-year-old boy in the murder investigation. Starting Thursday, May 19,he was the subject of a search warrant issued by the prosecution. On May 19 at 7 p.m., the alleged perpetrator went to the Amiens police station with several members of his family and was taken into custody.“, which ended this Saturday morning.
During his custody, “the respondent essentially exercised his right to remain silent, the statement said. He is not known unfavorably to the police or the courts.. [Le jeune homme tué] had already been sentenced when he was a minor”. The prosecution goes on to explain that “the context of this crime has not been established at this stage of the investigation, even if witnesses mentioned the existence of drug trafficking“In addition, the prosecutor indicates”no link yet“cannot be done with the violence by firearms committed in front of the César Franck college in Amiens Nord, last February.
Victim died instantly after two gunshots
The prosecution finally provides some information on the course of the facts: they occurred on the night of Wednesday to Thursday around 3:45 am. The 18-year-old victim was driving a rental car. According to the first findings of a medical examiner and an autopsy which took place on Friday morning, the young man was “hit by two close range gunshots. Death occurred instantly“.