Murder of Pont-Audemer. The three imprisoned men are known to the courts and deny the facts

Following the murder of a 33-year-old man in Pont-Audemer (Eure) “on the night of Friday 22 to Saturday 23 November 2024, against a clear background of drug trafficking, my prosecution opened a judicial investigation against of narcotics”, specifies, this Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the public prosecutor of Évreux, Rémi Coutin.

Three men arrested with the help of the GIGN

Since then, investigators have collected a certain number of testimonies and reviewed the videos made available to them by the city of Pont-Audemer. “It is therefore within the framework of the judicial investigation, acting on commission rogatory, that the gendarmes of the SR of Rouen, supported by the gendarmes of the Eure group and the GIGN, carried out the arrest, in the night of Wednesday November 27 to Thursday November 28, of three individuals suspected of having taken part in the criminal acts. »

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Well known to the courts

And the prosecutor continues. “These three individuals are respectively aged 33, 23 and 20 years old, and live in Pont-Audemer. They have all already been convicted in the past, once or several times, for various reasons ranging from traffic violations to acts of extortion, violent theft or death threats, including offenses against drug legislation. »

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Indicted and imprisoned

First placed in police custody, “they contested any participation in the events of Pont-Audemer, specifies Rémi Coutin. The investigating judge had them brought before him on Saturday November 29 and all three were indicted on charges of murder by an organized gang and attempted murder by an organized gang; they were then placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution and the request of the investigating judge; one of them, however, requested a deferred adversarial debate and this deferred adversarial debate must take place this week. The investigations are continuing, under the direction of the investigating judge.”