After fleeing to Hungary, Loïk Le Priol is sleeping behind bars in Paris.
The 27-year-old man, a former marine commando and figure in the ultra-right movement, is suspected of having opened fire on former Argentinian rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, who was shot dead after an altercation in a bar in Saint-Germain. -des-Pres, March 19.
A little more than fifteen days after the events, the testimony of a local resident who attended the initial fight published this Wednesday by L'Equipe sheds harsh light on the determination and violence of the main suspect.
Awakened by screams and insults
“
That morning, I was sleeping.
Despite the double glazing, I wake up to screams and insults.
My first instinct is to go see.
It is approximately 5:55 a.m., which has been corroborated by video surveillance images (…) Despite the time, there are many people at the windows, which testifies to the violence of the scene.
It's so violent, determined, and the man on the ground does not react so much, that for a split second I tell myself that he must have screwed up and that he "accepts" to take a beating"
, says , in the sports daily, the witness, marked by "
the determination of one of the guys
", Loïk Le Priol in this case.
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“
He tries to go back in (after being separated from his victim by bar staff), he continues to yell insults but is stopped by someone I haven't identified.
I'm sure if he could have gone back, he would have. I think if he could have killed him with his fists, he would have killed him with his fists.
He was screaming "Your mother the whore!"
, continues the local resident, according to whom Aramburu "
has just been screwed and does not even try to fight back (…) He did not want to fight, of course not
".
“
It's very subjective but now that I know the profile of the protagonists, I think they went after Aramburu because (Shaun) Hegarty (the Argentinian's friend who
accompanied) frightened them too much.
It's a wardrobe!
»
Heard for long hours at the scene of the crime by the investigators, the local resident, left his home after hearing the shots, wanted to testify in
L'Equipe
because "
nobody talks about this fight, it was short but hyper violent
."
In action, he saw Le Priol attempt “
several times to pull something out of his pocket!
I wanted to scream, I didn't.
I said to myself "they will take me for a crazy".
I said to myself at worst it is a knife
”.
“
Fights, I saw some, but there, it's weird, it's the first time that I had the feeling that it could go further,
adds the neighbor
.
He (the suspected attacker) seemed so determined.
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