the main suspect indicted for attempted murder and imprisoned

The main suspect of the Villerupt shooting (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Saturday May 13, was indicted for “attempted murder”, announced the parquet floor of Nancy, Wednesday. In accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, he was placed in pre-trial detention.

The man had been brought before a judge on Wednesday morning. He is suspected of being the author of the shots which injured five people, three of them seriously. Judicial information had been opened for “attempted assassination to the detriment of the five injured people”, “reception of property from theft and destruction of the property of others by dangerous means” and “materialized death threat”.

The alleged perpetrator of the shooting is a repeat offender with a heavy criminal record: since 2001, this 38-year-old man has been sentenced 30 times to prison terms, and four times to mixed sentences (imprisonment firm and partly accompanied by a probationary reprieve), mainly for acts of theft and violence, as well as for traffic offences, added the prosecutor. He was released on April 6 after having served two sentences of six and twelve months in prison for refusing to comply, aggravated violence and repeated theft.

On Wednesday, 63 gendarmes arrived in the small town near the Luxembourg and Belgian borders to lend a hand “until the end of the week” to local agents, announced on the spot the prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Arnaud Cochet.