On Friday, three men were presented to a judge for their indictment for attempted murder on gendarmes two days after exchanges of fire in Bourg-lès-Valence, said the Valence prosecutor. The prosecution also asked for their placement in pre -trial detention, said Laurent de Caigny in a press release.
A fourth arrested was “released because his involvement in homicide attempts was not sufficiently established in the state despite his knowledge of the other suspects,” said the prosecutor.
Shooting and injured person exchanges
Wednesday evening, the gendarmes of Drôme were monitoring as part of an operation led by another parquet, explained Laurent de Caigny. They were in civilian clothes in two trivialized cars. Shortly after midnight, one of the gendarmes of the first vehicle entered the “oral contact” with the occupants of a suspect vehicle before moving away from it.
Joined by a second vehicle, the suspect individuals went to the second trivialized vehicle and spotted a gendarme seated at the rear. Alerted by death threats to their colleague, the gendarmes of the first car wanted to lend him a hand. A few minutes later, a man held out and a gunshot sounded, without being injured. The gendarme retaliated and had “the certainty of having touched the person out of the vehicle”, according to Laurent de Caigny. All suspects then fled.
A little later, an individual presented himself at the Valencia hospital center, injured by bullet in the shoulder. This man, born in 1985, was then placed in police custody, as well as three people who seemed to wait for him in the hospital parking lot.
Surveillance as part of an investigation for attempted homicide
According to the Lyon prosecution, surveillance had been set up as part of an investigation for attempted homicide in Grenoble in connection with drug trafficking.
Nothing yet makes it possible to link the suspects with this survey, but their profile and searches “could guide the investigations (…) on their possible link with an underground economy and criminal trafficking organized”, according to Laurent de Caigny.
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In addition, a 17 -year -old was placed in police custody in Grenoble as part of the investigation for attempted homicide at the origin of this hideout. He is also suspected of being the author of the Granada attack, which occurred on February 12 in a bar in the city, according to the Lyon prosecutor.
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