Murder of a young Afghan in Colmar: a teenager, suspected shooter, arrested in Sarcelles – archyde

After more than a week on the run, a 17-year-old young man, suspected of having shot and killed a 27-year-old Afghan refugee in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), was arrested on Tuesday in Sarcelles (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 indeed 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. years, while an accomplice, just of age, is still wanted. “The investigations are continuing”, simply underlined the prosecutor of Colmar. In the evening, police officers from the Raid and the BRI, heavily armed and supported by their colleagues from Colmar and the CRS invested and sealed off a 15-storey tower. , located 500 meters from the scene of the assassination, under the eyes of some 200 onlookers and residents of the building. security issues, ”said a resident, Annick Basse, to AFP. district known as the Republican Reconquest (QRR) located to the west of this tourist town. The young man, a refugee in France since 2017, was killed by a bullet in 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, Ms. Sorita-Minard. A fight had broken out between the two groups and, ” while part 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. The young Afghan died of the consequences of his injuries in the hospital overnight. 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 on Tuesday to Afghanistan. “We thank the police for having caught the person, it is a good new “, reacted to AFP Sardarwali Tarakhin, friend of the victim, visibly relieved like other relatives by the news of this arrest. 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. On Twitter, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin welcomed the arrest of the alleged shooter. “The police always win in the end. Thank you to the investigators for their hard work,” he wrote. Shortly after the assassination, the minister dispatched the CRS 8 to Colmar. This mobile law enforcement unit likely to intervene very quickly. throughout the territory multiplied 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. “This arrest will make it possible to understand the circumstances of this assassination. Congratulations to the Police, ”tweeted the city councilor.