Loïk Le Priol, suspect in the death in Paris of ex-rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, will be handed over by Hungary to the French authorities “within ten days”, the Budapest court announced on Friday.
The 27-year-old was arrested on Tuesday evening at the Zahony border post as part of a European arrest warrant, as he was preparing to travel to Ukraine. Speaking by videoconference at the hearing, he agreed to his transfer.
Loïk Le Priol appeared calm and cooperative and refused to comment on the case. He had previously explained to the police that he wanted to go to Ukraine “to fight”. Three knives were seized from his car. “In such a case, the procedure provides for a surrender within 10 days,” said judge Judit Csiszar. According to the suspect’s lawyer, Laszlo Beno, interviewed by AFP, the French authorities will probably “intervene quickly” for a surrender “in the next 24 or 48 hours”.
A suspect with an “S”
This former soldier and member of the far-right GUD movement is suspected of having fired Saturday, in the center of Paris, on the 42-year-old former Argentinian international, who died on the spot from his injuries. Another man, Romain Bouvier, 31, a former student of the Parisian university Assas also active on the ultra-right, was arrested on Wednesday in Sarthe. He would also have shot the ex-Argentine international. The day before, a 24-year-old woman suspected of having driven a vehicle belonging to Loïk Le Priol on the evening of the events, had been indicted for “complicity in murder” and placed in pre-trial detention.
Loïk Le Priol is known for his radicalism and violence. Its anchorage to the ultra-right earned it to be “file S” by the general direction of internal security (DGSI), told AFP sources close to the file. The S file is one of the categories of the file of wanted persons (RPF), not only for terrorism. He must appear, like Romain Bouvier, in court in June for “aggravated violence” against a member of the GUD, whom they are suspected of having beaten and humiliated with three other members of the ultra-right movement.