Three men were indicted for murder and placed in pre-trial detention in the investigation into the shooting death of a 33-year-old man in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) a week ago, announced on Friday 30 July the Angers prosecutor's office.
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In the night of Friday to last Saturday, a man was killed by two bullets in the neck and in the back, place Travot in Cholet, following an altercation "
whose motive remains to be specified
", indicated the Angers prosecutor Éric Bouillard.
The three respondents are aged 17, 23 and 24, respectively.
A fourth man had been indicted and imprisoned Sunday for non-prevention of crime and non-assistance to anyone in danger.
The judicial police were seized of the investigation.
A judicial information for assassination was opened on Sunday.