A 26-year-old man accused of killing a Roma mother in February was indicted and imprisoned for “murder and attempted murder committed on grounds of race, ethnicity, nation or religion”, a statement said. announced the Annecy prosecutor on Saturday.
The suspect “admitted to being the author of the shooting targeting the family” installed on land in Chênex, in Haute-Savoie, “while denying having deliberately touched the victim”a 40-year-old pregnant woman, went out to see the damage after “several gunshots” at her mobile home on February 22, prosecutor Line Bonnet said in a press release.
A second man, aged 30 and indicted for the same facts, admitted “having left the shooter with his rifle at the scene of the crime” and then recovered it. The two men also admitted to having fired shots two days earlier, on February 20, at several caravans from another Traveler camp in Viry, a few kilometers away. There were no injuries, according to the Annecy prosecutor’s office.
Both were placed in pre-trial detention on Friday, according to the same Source.
According to the testimonies of the victim’s husband and two daughters, aged 13 and 14, the family mobile home was “the target of several gunshots, at least one of which hit a gas cylinder located outside.”
Bullet holes were found on the gas bottle and the mobile home, as well as “several cartridge cases in the forest about a hundred meters from the mobile home”.
THE “important investigations” highlighted “the possible participation of several individuals from Haute-Savoie”specifies the press release.
After more than three months of investigation, a “important legal operation” led on Tuesday to the arrest of five people placed in police custody for murder and attempted murder by an organized gang, and for “non-reporting of crime”according to the same Source.
Rifle “used to shoot” on the victim was found during searches.
The two suspects prosecuted for the fatal shootings are hunters, according to the daily Dauphiné Libéré.
