A suspect was arrested, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for the assassination on January 6 of a mobster, shot in the head in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), indicated the Bobigny prosecutor's office on Friday, confirming information from Le
Parisien
.
As he was leaving a bar-tabac around 6:00 p.m., Abderrazak Dahmani, 52, was killed in the middle of the street, shot in the temple, by an individual who was hiding a handgun in a plastic bag and had fled, a police source told AFP at the time.
Sentenced for the kidnapping of a boss of a construction company
Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the convict died on the spot.
The deceased was well known to the courts for having been sentenced, with two other accomplices, by the Val-d'Oise Assize Court in 2012 for the kidnapping and confinement for nine days of the boss of a Construction of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d'Oise).
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The kidnappers, disguised as fake police, had demanded a ransom of 350,000 euros against his release.
The commando had been sentenced to eight to thirteen years in prison.
According to Le
Parisien
, the man arrested on Wednesday by investigators is a long-time associate of Abderrazak Dahmani, convicted alongside him in the business manager's kidnapping case.
The investigation is entrusted to the criminal brigade of the judicial police.
