Four people suspected of being involved in the violent death of a young man last Sunday evening in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) were indicted for murder in an organized gang, we learned Thursday from the Bobigny parquet.
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After four days in police custody, the four suspects, aged 22 to 28, were brought "
before the examining magistrate and charged with counts of murder in an organized gang and attempted murder in an organized gang
" , said the prosecution.
One of them was remanded in custody, added this source, specifying that the fate of the three others, for whom incarceration was also required, was being studied Thursday evening by the judge of freedoms and of detention.
Three of them are already known to the courts, convicted of offenses related to drug trafficking.
They are suspected of having participated in a punitive expedition carried out in another district, the city of Cordon, also known to be a high place of drug trafficking in Saint-Ouen.
Around 10 p.m. Sunday, a group of about fifteen people attacked several people near a deal point, targeting in particular and with great violence the victim, a young man of 26, a source said. policewoman.
The victim died after receiving stab wounds and baseball bat, according to a source close to the investigation, believing that the hypothesis of a settling of accounts was privileged.
According to the first elements of the autopsy, the death was probably caused by the section of a femoral artery.
The scene was filmed by surveillance cameras, thus allowing the police to quickly arrest several suspected perpetrators.