They have just requested their release in front of the investigation chamber.
Locked up since last January, two half-brothers, suspected of being the sponsors of an assassination attempt, committed on August 3, 2020, at the foot of the Tour d’Assas in Montpellier, have just asked for their release, this Tuesday, September 28, before the investigative chamber of the Court of Appeal.
That evening, around 9 p.m., an individual, dressed in black, hooded, gloved and carrying a firearm, shot twice in the direction of a group installed on the terrace of a restaurant. If several people are slightly injured, a man, the target of the attack, is between life and death, after being seriously injured in the thorax, a leg, lungs and kidneys.
Two lifesaving anonymous pieces of information
Confronted with the absence of a CCTV camera and especially the silence of the residents, the SRPJ police officers will have great difficulty in advancing the investigation. It is ultimately anonymous information that will allow them to see a little more clearly.
A “tip” pointing to a young man from the neighborhood as being the author of the shots. “For a reason then undetermined, the latter would have attacked two brothers, unfavorably known to be at the head of drug trafficking and causing terror to reign in La Paillade”, specified the president of the chamber of instruction.
A revelation on the identity of the shooter which will be confirmed by the victim, on his hospital bed. As well as by his brother, who will tell the police that he had recognized him, despite his balaclava. The latter had even turned around in his flight when he called him by his nickname!
Turf war
A second anonymous piece of information will even reveal the mobile. According to the informant, the suspect acted at the request of two sponsors who, against € 2,000, would have commissioned him to carry out a contract. And this, obviously, in retaliation after the facade of their parents’ house as well as the family car were riddled with bullets, in April 2020, against a backdrop of turf war.
A clan war which, according to the Advocate General, had “a third aftershock, around 1 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2020, the first day of the reconfinement. With this spectacular shooting at the tower of Assas and a new assassination attempt. Here again, we deplore a serious injury”, in the person of one of the alleged sponsors.
“But residents could just as easily have paid the price of a stray bullet. Some warheads were lodged in apartments located nearby. Fortunately, this is not the case. But we have to admit that this district of La Paillade is in the process of turning, with the inhabitants taken hostage, to the darkest districts of certain suburbs of Marseille, Lyon or even Paris “.
He says he and his family have been threatened
After several months of investigation, the investigations will finally lead to the arrest of the main suspect in this August 3, 2020 shooting. In this case, a young man, recently released from prison, who will quickly move to the table. However, if he admits to being the shooter, he says he acted under the coercion of the two half-brothers.
According to his hearings, “he would have been fined with a contract to perform. He says he had no choice because he was forced to do this by threatening him and his family. And even that at the last moment, when he refused to take action, he would have been hit “, related the president of the chamber of instruction.
A version of the facts that deny en bloc, for months, his two co-indicted for attempted assassination. And who are now asking to be placed under judicial supervision by justifying accommodation and employment contracts.
“The instruction does not advance”
The lawyer for one of the two half-brothers explained at the bar that if, in this case, a request for release had been made, on September 20, it was because, “ten months after the facts, the investigation is not moving forward”.
And the advice to add: “We have not had any feedback from the rogatory commission since the month of January that the information is open. All the more so as the only implication of my client in this affair emanates from the statements of the shooter. That’s why today ‘hui, he proposes to get out of this environment and go to Isère where he will be hosted by his partner and where he can work. “
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