The co-founder of the neo-Nazi “White Wolves” clan Jérémy Mourain was indicted for “aggravated willful violence” and placed in pre-trial detention.
He is suspected of having injured four people, in particular with a rifle, in Gauchy in the Aisne, AFP learned Tuesday from the Saint-Quentin prosecutor's office.
On July 14, “an altercation took place between a group of young people and another individual” in Gauchy.
The next day, following this altercation, "there was a settling of scores" with "gunshots", indicates the prosecution, thus confirming information from Courrier Picard and Aisne news.
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The alleged perpetrator of these shots, Jérémy Mourain, "was indicted for willful violence with weapons", of the "rifle" and "knife" type, and remanded in custody on Saturday, said the prosecution which reports of "four victims" whose vital prognosis is not engaged.
"No racist criteria" would have been retained at this stage, according to this source.
According to witnesses quoted by the local press, racist slurs were said by the alleged perpetrator.
A conviction in 2017
Head of the neo-Nazi “White Wolves” clan, Jérémy Mourain was sentenced in 2017 to nine years in prison by the Amiens Criminal Court during a trial in which eighteen defendants appeared for organizing or participating in a group of combat, criminal association or even violence.
Created in early 2013 in Ham in the Somme, the WWK, or “White Wolves Klan”, was born out of the ashes of Third Way.
This other small group was headed by Serge Ayoub, former leader of the extreme right-wing Parisian skinheads and the Revolutionary Nationalist Youth (JNR), mentor of Jérémy Mourain.
This organization was dissolved in July 2013 by government decree after the death of far-left activist Clément Méric in June 2013 in Paris, following a brawl in which some of its members were involved.