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The Cévennes shooter indicted for assassinations

2021-05-18T00:29:36.870Z


Valentin Marcone, who surrendered at the end of an extraordinary hunt, confessed to his double crime during police custody.


Arrested on Friday following an extraordinary hunt, Valentin Marcone was indicted Sunday afternoon for "assassinations", announced the Nîmes prosecutor, Eric Maurel, specifying that the 29-year-old man, who confessed to the crime before investigators during police custody, had remained silent before the investigating judge.

A little earlier in the day, the magistrate had declared to keep

"the idea of ​​premeditation".

"There are many elements which allow it to be retained",

he specified, in particular the carrying of a loaded weapon, or even chambered, that is to say ready to fire, and the procedure followed:

"He there was a quick verbal exchange.

He then walked over a conveyor belt, opened several layers of clothing, and grabbed his gun.

It took some time to carry out this manipulation, ”

said the prosecutor.

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"He opened fire three or even four times on the two unfortunate victims,"

he added, announcing that the individual would be

"brought before an investigating judge, on the qualification of assassinations, committed on the two victims ”,

thus incurring life imprisonment. Having refused the services of a lawyer while in police custody, the author had cooperated smoothly with the investigators, and spoke

"in a clear and coherent manner,"

said the magistrate.

Colonel Bertrand Michel, commander of the research section of Nîmes, also returned Sunday morning to the conditions of the hunt.

"The individual said he could shoot up to 600 meters with his rifle, and left with a box of 50 ammunition,"

the officer said. However, he quickly got rid of his weapons and, according to the first elements,

"did not want to harm the gendarmes".

During this extraordinary hunt, which mobilized more than 350 gendarmes, aided by drones, he joined a

“boar hole”

which he created with his bare hands, then took refuge there. The place was near a stream. Without food, he would have lasted 83 hours before surrendering.

“He didn't express any regrets.

He positions himself as a victim who reacted to an assault, ”

Colonel Michel said.

"Someone who was afraid"

Regarding his profile,

"there is nothing to say that he is paranoid, we will leave that to the experts,"

said the prosecutor.

“However, we feel that it is someone who was afraid, especially of certain people from the village. It was this fear that had led him to come to work with a bulletproof vest for three years, and with a weapon for several months, ”

he continued. Valentin Marcone had also installed a video protection system at his home, which was useful for investigators. Sensitive to the

"rules"

, he had filed several complaints against his employers on procedural issues; they had not been found admissible.

"It seems that this boy could have conceived a frustration or a disappointment with regard to the system, which did not provide an answer",

analyzed Éric Maurel. He would then have

"decided"

to solve his problems on his own.

"A dismissal for serious misconduct was mentioned, according to him, that morning",

he also explained, to decipher the passage to the act, the investigation remaining cautious on this point. The magistrate also insisted that, on the morning of the tragedy,

"the alert was given by members of his own family".

Source: lefigaro

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