Man Suspected Of Killing An Afghan In Colmar Arrested After 9 Days On The Run – HuffPost

FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP Candles and flowers are laid in front of a building following the murder of a young 27-year-old Afghan man on August 14, shot dead after protesting against urban dirt-bike riding on the sidewalk, in Colmar, northeastern France on August 17, 2022. – “The police and the judicial police are doing everything possible to find the perpetrator or perpetrators of this heinous crime”, the secretary general of the Haut-Rhin prefecture, Christophe Marot, said during of a press briefing on August 16, 2022. (Photo by Frederick FLORIN / AFP) FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP Candles and flowers in tribute to the Afghan refugee shot dead in Colmar on August 14, 2022. MISCELLANEOUS – After more than a week on the run, a A 17-year-old young man, suspected of having shot and killed a 27-year-old Afghan refugee in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin, was arrested on Tuesday August 23 in Sarcelles, in the Val d’Oise. The arrest took place around 1:30 p.m. and “the person was placed in police custody”, indicated the public prosecutor of Colmar, Catherine Sorita-Minard, in a press release, without specifying whether it was property of the alleged shooter, as several sources close to the investigation told AFP. According to one of them, the person arrested, placed in police custody in the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre, is 17 years old, while an accomplice, just of age, is still wanted. “The investigations are continuing”, simply underlined the prosecutor of Colmar. A brawl between two gangs in Colmar Passing through Colmar to find friends in the Europe district, a district called Reconquête République (QRR) located to the west of this tourist city, the victim, a refugee in France since 2017, was killed August 14 with a bullet to the chest. Bothered by the noise of a scooter, Abdul Quayyeem Ahmadzai had asked the driver to move away. The latter had then insulted him, before returning “with several individuals”, had detailed, after the opening of a judicial investigation against X for assassination, Catherine Sorita-Minard. A brawl had broken out between the two groups and, “while some of the protagonists dispersed, a shot was fired by an individual, according to the witnesses heard within the framework of the investigation, in the direction of the victim”, according to the magistrate. “Justice for Abdul”, proclaimed the relatives of the victim The young Afghan died of his injuries in the hospital during the night. The autopsy confirmed that he had been hit by a single bullet. The alleged shooter and his accomplice had since been on the run, to the great despair of the relatives of the victim, whose coffin was to be repatriated to Afghanistan on Tuesday. “We thank the police for having caught the person, it’s good news”, reacted to AFP Sardarwali Tarakhin, friend of the victim, visibly relieved like other relatives by the news of this arrest. On Monday, around 200 people gathered around his coffin for a funeral ceremony at the Great Mosque of Strasbourg. His relatives, annoyed that the culprits were still at large, had demanded “justice for Abdul”. Employed in a car factory in Mulhouse, Abdul Quayyeem Ahmadzai leaves a wife and four young children who remained in Afghanistan, according to his friends. The hypothesis of the urban rodeo disputed On Twitter, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin welcomed the arrest of the alleged shooter. “The police always win in the end. Thanks to the investigators for their hard work,” he wrote. The police always win in the end. Thank you to the investigators for their hard work. https://t.co/sDdT8bRbn4 – Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) See the tweet Shortly after the assassination, the minister dispatched the CRS 8 to Colmar. This mobile law enforcement unit likely to intervene in very short notice throughout the territory increased the number of checks for a few days. The hypothesis of an “urban rodeo” was first mentioned as a possible trigger for this deadly brawl before being challenged. “It is not because someone is on a scooter that he is doing a rodeo”, noted, two days after the facts, the LR mayor of Colmar, Éric Straumann. The information has just been confirmed to me by the Ministry of the Interior. According to BFM TV, the man suspected of having killed… https://t.co/4VjMuDGgVh — Eric Straumann (@ericstraumann) See the tweet “This arrest will make it possible to understand the circumstances of this assassination. Congratulations to the Police, ”tweeted the city councilor. See also also on the Huffpost: Éric Dupond-Moretti claims to have “never been informed” of karting at Fresnes prison You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.