The facts occurred Saturday in the middle of the day in the district of Europe, in Colmar. A group of Afghans shared a barbecue, before being bothered by the noise of a scooter whose driver was performing a rodeo.
There followed an altercation with the driver who ended up leaving the scene before returning, shooting one of the members of the group and fleeing, according to the account of a police source. “One of the perpetrators, on a scooter, was going back and forth,” reports another police source, without mentioning a rodeo or scooter rally.
“The situation then degenerated quickly with the group of Afghans to which the victim belongs, and a group to which the driver of the scooter belonged”, says this source again. According to her, the shooter was not necessarily the driver of the scooter but was anyway a member of this last group.
white march
The young Afghan, unknown to the police, was hit in the chest. Hospitalized in critical condition, he succumbed to his injuries. The Mulhouse branch of the judicial police is in charge of the investigation.
A white march from the Republican Reconquest district (QRR) where the events took place gathered 165 people on Monday afternoon and ended in front of the police station, police said. The demonstrators marched with Afghan flags and held up portraits of the victim, according to photos released by the Latest News from Alsace.
Monday, at the end of the day, the Minister of the Interior announced the dispatch of the CRS 8 to Colmar, a mobile unit specially created to intervene quickly throughout the territory. “Significant means are being implemented to find the Colmar killer,” said Gérald Darmanin on Twitter.