He was found dead in June 2020 in the parking lot of a school in Montivilliers, in the agglomeration of Le Havre.
Allan Affagard, a 40-year-old docker, CGT delegate, was kidnapped after a family evening.
Tuesday, May 25 in the morning, ten people in Le Havre and Rouen suspected of having participated in his assassination were arrested and then placed in police custody,
the Lille prosecutor's office
told
Figaro
, confirming information from France Inter.
The judicial court in particular carried out numerous hearings, and three of those in police custody were placed in pre-trial detention on Friday, May 28, according to a statement from the prosecution.
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In 2018, the victim was indicted for "
criminal conspiracy in connection with drug trafficking rampant in the port area
", announced the prosecution in a statement a few days after the murder. At the time, investigators favored the track of a settling of scores. A hypothesis which, a year after the facts, seems to be confirmed, the ten suspects arrested last Tuesday being, according to France Inter, also involved in drug trafficking. They would have in particular, according to the station, participated in the kidnappings of other dockers and their relatives in order to intimidate them.
Three of the arrested, aged about thirty, were presented this Friday May 28 to the investigating judge of the JIRS and indicted for "
criminal association with a view to committing crimes and misdemeanors punishable by ten years imprisonment,
”the Lille judicial court said in a statement.
“
Convicted multiple times, two have already been imprisoned for other reasons.
The three men were remanded in custody,
”adds the prosecution.
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In June 2020, a judicial investigation was opened in the office of an investigating judge of the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction of Lille (JIRS) for “kidnapping followed by death in an organized gang”.
The investigation had been entrusted to the Regional Judicial Police Service of Rouen as well as to the Research Section of Rouen.
A white march was organized by dockers and their families to denounce the pressure exerted by drug traffickers on dockers to get cocaine out of the port of Le Havre.
According to France Inter, a few days before his death, the victim had filed a complaint with the authorities for threatening messages.