The family climate was tense on Sunday in the home of a blended family living in Langeac. The defendant’s eldest son, a young teenager, had come to visit his father, his partner and the couple’s two young children.
The thirty-year-old was not having a “good day” and relations were said to have become strained between father and son. An altercation then allegedly broke out in a room of the house. One of the protagonists was found to be in possession of a bladed weapon, without it being used. The father, aged 38, grabbed a gun and fired at a bedroom window, breaking a pane. No one was injured by the shooting.
After this event, the son and partner of the armed man left the home to protect themselves. The suspect was arrested at the end of the night by the gendarmerie and was taken into police custody. “He was brought to court on Wednesday,” confirms the public prosecutor of Puy-en-Velay, Cathy Pajon.
He is being prosecuted in the context of a delayed appearance for violence resulting in total incapacity for work of more than 8 days on the four people who were at the home on the evening of the events, but also for use of narcotics. He was presented to the judge of freedoms and detention who decided to place him in pre-trial detention pending his judgment which must take place within two months in order to allow a forensic doctor to assess precisely the damage suffered by each victim.
-Celine Demars
Morocco
