Le Figaro Lyon
He slept behind bars at the end of his police custody. The 23-year-old arrested Tuesday for the fatal robbery of the Chamas Tacos fast food establishment in Villeurbanne was placed in detention Thursday, announced the prosecutor of Lyon. As revealed by Le Figaro on Wednesday, the suspect has admitted the facts. According to our information, he nevertheless disputes the intention to kill.
An open judicial investigation into the charge of robbery with violence resulting in death, a criminal offence punishable by life imprisonment, was opened by the public prosecutor, Nicolas Jacquet. The investigations of the judicial police of Lyon had made it possible to quickly lead to the arrest of the suspect at his home Villeurbannais by the brigade of research and intervention (BRI), Tuesday evening. He therefore admitted to robbing the fast food establishment, located Avenue Roger Salengro in the Croix-Luizet district, on the night of Thursday, May 11 to Friday, May 12.
Convicted of robbery with violence in 2019
He had been given the contents of the cash drawer by one of the two employees, whom he threatened with his weapon. For a loot of just a few hundred euros, according to our information. The second employee present in the middle of the night had thrown a chair at the robber to intervene in his escape. The 35-year-old man was then shot three times by the perpetrator. Shot in the lower abdomen and thigh, he was taken care of by the emergency services and transferred to the Édouard Herriot hospital, where he died in the early morning.
"It is the reign of ultra violence," lamented David Metaxas, lawyer for the family of the deceased. The suspect had called his office Monday night to indicate his intention to surrender to the police while the lawyer had urged him to do so through the press. If he does not belong to organized crime, the suspect is known to Justice for having been sentenced in Colmar, to six months in prison suspended, in a case of robbery with violence in 2019. He was then sentenced to prison in 2020 for violence against a person holding public authority in Lyon.
