An evening that goes wrong. A 24-year-old mechanic, suspected of having shot dead a forty-year-old after a drunken evening followed by an altercation near a bar on Friday in Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire), was indicted for murder and imprisoned on Monday, we learned from the Saint-Etienne public prosecutor’s office.
The young man was indicted for “assassination and attempted assassination” for having shot a second person without hitting him during the night from Friday to Saturday, the public prosecutor, David Charmatz, told AFP. . The young man will also have to answer for “possession of a weapon without authorization and concealment of a corpse”, added the prosecutor.
His employer released
He allegedly borrowed the pistol used in the fatal shooting from his employer, aged 51. The latter helped him move the body several kilometers and then threw it in a river. The employer was indicted for “possession of a weapon without authorization and concealment of a corpse”, and released under judicial supervision, the same source specifies.
The two men, who told investigators the place where they had disposed of the body, were presented to an investigating judge on Monday, after two days in police custody.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the alleged murderer returned to settle scores with his boss’s pistol, at the end of a drunken evening and near the bar-restaurant of this town where he had recently been. argued and fought with other customers.