The alleged perpetrator of the shooting at a GIGN gendarme, killed during an operation against illegal gold panning at the end of March in Guyana, was transferred to Martinique where he was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday March 13, according to the Fort-de-France public prosecutor's office.
The 20-year-old man of Brazilian nationality was arrested on Saturday in the Guyanese forest after having announced his intention to surrender.
"He was in a fairly catastrophic situation in the forest
," said Clarisse Taron, the public prosecutor of Fort-de-France, during a press briefing earlier this week, adding that the man had denounced
"by asking in exchange to have his life saved"
.
Presented Thursday to an investigating judge of the JIRS (specialized interregional jurisdiction) of Fort-de-France, the individual was indicted for intentional homicide in an organized gang and criminal association.
He was placed in pre-trial detention at the Ducos penitentiary center in Martinique.
GIGN policeman Arnaud Blanc, 35, died while taking part in an operation against illegal gold panning on the clandestine site of Dorlin, in the heart of Guyana, not far from Maripasoula.
Pacsé, the soldier was the father of two children.
During a tribute ceremony on March 31, Emmanuel Macron saluted the memory of a
“smiling and free”
man , a
“soldier of the law”
.
