The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office on Tuesday requested a trial for four suspects in the investigation into the assassination of police officer Xavier Jugelé on the Champs-Élysées on April 20, 2017.
That day, three days before the first round of the presidential election, Karim Cheurfi, a 39-year-old Frenchman with a heavy judicial past and already convicted of attempted murders on police officers, shot Xavier Jugelé and injured two other members of the police, before being shot. The attack was claimed in the wake of the Islamic State organization.
Quickly, three members of the entourage of the alleged assailant had also been arrested and indicted. Among them, Nourredine A., 27, is suspected of having acquired Karim Cheurfi's motorcycle against the supply of the weapon, according to a source close to the investigation.
A highly regarded police officer in the LGBT community
Originally from Blois (Loir-et-Cher), graduated from police academy in 2011 after having worked for five years as a voluntary assistant gendarme, Xavier Jugelé was part of the 32nd intervention company of the public order department and traffic of the Paris police headquarters (DOPC). Pacsé to a man, the policeman was highly regarded, especially within the LGBT community of the national police.
In 2003, Karim Cheurfi was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting at police officers. In 2005, his sentence was reduced to 15 years. A few days after the attack of April 17, 2020, the killer's father had praised his son's actions. He has since been sentenced to ten months in prison.
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