Death of Federico Martin Aramburu: the driver of the jeep indicted for complicity in assassination

The young woman, aged 24, is said to have driven the car from which two men allegedly shot the former Argentine international on a boulevard in the 6th arrondissement, around 6 a.m. on Saturday, according to a source close to the investigation. Arrested on Saturday at the end of the day and placed in police custody, she was presented on Tuesday to an investigating judge of the Paris court who indicted her for “complicity in murder and refusal to hand over the decryption agreement of a means of cryptology”. The young woman refused to give the investigators the codes allowing them to access her telephone or her computer equipment. She was remanded in custody by a liberty and detention judge. The two men, aged around 30, were still wanted at the end of the day on Tuesday. Altercation in a bar Federico Martin Aramburu, 42-year-old former Argentinian rugby international, was shot and killed after an altercation in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. After a dispute at Le Mabillon bar, two groups were separated by bouncers, according to a police source, but the suspects returned soon after with a vehicle and fired shots. Several bullet holes were noted, added a source close to the investigation and the former player died on the spot as a result of his injuries. According to the first elements, two men fired shots. Both are far-right activists. The woman driving the vehicle was close to one of them. The prosecution opened a flagrant investigation for murder on Saturday, then a judicial investigation on Tuesday, entrusted to the criminal brigade. “Absolute nightmare” A former Biarritz Olympique player, present on the spot, had explained that they were taking a last burger. “There was an altercation as there can be at the end of the evening. It worked out but the men came back and targeted Aramburu who took three bullets,” he said. Federico Martin Aramburu, born in 1980, former center or winger for Biarritz (2004-2006), Perpignan ( 2006-2008) or Dax (2008-2010), had 22 selections with Argentina. The former three-quarter had notably started in the match for 3rd place in the 2007 World Cup, won by the Argentines against the Blues (34-17), a meeting during which he scored a try. Since retiring from sport, he lived in Biarritz and worked for a tourism company. The rugby community paid him many tributes. Through the voice of their lawyer Me Yann Le Bras, his relatives called to let the police work calmly.