The prosecution has requested the opening of an information for intentional homicide against the alleged shooter, after the shooting murder of a forty-something Thursday in the rural town of Mignères (Loiret), announced Friday, July 24 the prosecutor of the Republic of Montargis Loïc Abrial. " The author will be presented to an investigating judge of the criminal pole on Saturday morning, with a requisition for placement in pre-trial detention, " added the magistrate.
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“ The autopsy confirmed as the cause of death by gunfire between the two eyes. The projectile was found in the skull of the victim, ”said Mr. Abrial. “ The findings of the forensic scientists made it possible to determine a shot at a very short distance, probably between ten and twenty centimeters, which can be described as shot at close range. The perpetrator said the shot had gone unintentionally. (...) This is not the thesis of the prosecution, ”said Mr. Abrial.
In the early afternoon Thursday, an altercation between the alleged shooter, born in 1955, and the victim, born in 1978, had taken place in the street, near a bar-restaurant. A single shot was fired by the alleged perpetrator, who had surrendered himself to the gendarmerie in the afternoon.
“ The facts unfolded very quickly. The author was said to have been punched by the victim and replied with a gun fire. This weapon had been in his car for some time, ”explained the prosecutor, referring to a dispute related to“ a history of the car and work carried out ”. The two men were both known to the law.