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Aged 20, this Carcassonnais was brought before the courthouse yesterday, at the end of his police custody. On Tuesday, he had been shot in an apartment on Rue du Pont Vieux, and had indicated that the author of the shot had fled…
After 48 hours of police custody, a 20-year-old from Carcasson was brought to the courthouse yesterday. He is being prosecuted for “prohibited possession of category B weapon (a semi-automatic pistol, Ed.)”, as well as for “reporting of an imaginary offense to the judicial authorities”To understand, we must go back to Tuesday, June 25 in Carcassonne, shortly before 2 p.m.
That day, a young man came out of the building located at 51 rue du Pont Vieux with a bleeding leg. He claims to have been shot, and that the perpetrator is on the run. He will even go so far as to give a report. Injured in a thigh and a calf, he was treated and evacuated to the emergency room of the hospital center, without his life being in danger. During this time, the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office opened proceedings for attempted murder and referred the matter to the judicial police for further investigations.
Very quickly, during the search carried out in the injured man’s apartment, the police finally discovered a shell casing and traces of blood, suggesting that the events took place here.
Questioned again upon his release from the hospital as part of his placement in police custody, the injured person will then end up saying that he injured himself while handling a weapon. The small-calibre bullet thus passed through his thigh and hit his calf below. There was only one shot, and the perpetrator denounced was pure imagination. Presented to the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office yesterday afternoon, the accused was then sent to the judge of liberties and detention (JLD), who decided to place him in provisional detention. He will be tried during a deferred appearance, as soon as the psychiatric assessment requested for him has been carried out.
