The man suspected of having shot students at the University of the West Indies on October 11 during a festive gathering in the parking lot of the Destreland shopping center was arrested by the gendarmerie intervention group. national (GIGN), October 29. The suspect was referred this Thursday, October 31, and indicted by the investigating judge.
Lydia Quérin
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Published on October 31, 2024 at 5:40 p.m.,
updated October 31, 2024 at 5:50 p.m.
The man suspected of having shot two students at the University of the West Indies on October 11 was arrested on Tuesday, October 29, by the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN).
The suspect, a Guadeloupean man, aged 29, was referred this Thursday, October 31, and indicted by the investigating judge of the heads of “attempted murders concomitant with robberies and attempted robberies at gunpoint”. He was placed in pre-trial detention.
On the facts, the suspected man indicated “having shot, drunk and in response to bad looks”. He admits to stealing a cell phone.
This violent attack had moved the entire university community: uA group of engineering students from the University of the West Indies, aged around twenty, were targeted by the shooter. One of them was seriously injured, receiving several bullets. His life prognosis was initially serious, but after an emergency operation, his condition stabilized. A second student was also injured, but more lightly.
If today the vital prognosis of the two direct victims of the shootings, aged 20 and 22, is no longer in jeopardy, “their state of health remains worrying”specifies Caroline Calbo, the prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre, in a press release.
“The three other students targeted with the handgun, aged 20 and 22, are still traumatized by this attack” we also learned.
