A young man suspected of having shot an Afghan refugee in Colmar was arrested in Sarcelles
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After more than a week on the run, a 17-year-old young man, suspected of having shot and killed a 27-year-old Afghan refugee in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), was arrested on Tuesday, August 23, in Sarcelles (Val- of Oise).
The arrest took place around 1:30 p.m. “The person has been taken into custody”announced the public prosecutor of Colmar, Catherine Sorita-Minard, in a communicatedwithout specifying whether it was indeed the alleged shooter, as several sources close to the investigation told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
According to one of them, the person arrested, placed in police custody in the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre, is 17 years old, while an accomplice, just of age, is still wanted. “Investigations are continuing”underlined the prosecutor of Colmar.
In the evening, police officers from the RAID [unité de recherche, d’assistance, d’intervention et de dissuasion] and the BIS [brigade de recherche et d’intervention], heavily armed and supported by their colleagues from Colmar and the CRS, invested and cordoned off a fifteen-storey tower, located 500 meters from the scene of the assassination.
“Justice for Abdul”
On August 14, the victim of the assassination was passing through Colmar to meet friends in the Europe district, a district of “republican reconquest”, in the west of this tourist city. The young man, a refugee in France since 2017, was killed by a bullet in the chest.
Bothered by the noise of a scooter, Abdul Quayyem Ahmadzai had asked the driver to move away. The latter had then insulted him, before returning “with several people”had detailed, after the opening of a judicial investigation against X for assassination, Mme Sorita Minard.
A brawl had broken out between the two groups and, “while some of the protagonists dispersed, a shot was fired by an individual, according to the witnesses heard as part of the investigation, in the direction of the victim”according to the magistrate. The young Afghan died of his injuries in hospital overnight. The autopsy confirmed that he had been hit by a single bullet.
The alleged shooter and his accomplice had since been on the run, to the great despair of the relatives of the victim, whose coffin was to be repatriated to Afghanistan on Tuesday. “We thank the police for having caught the person, it’s good news”reacted to AFP Sardarwali Tarakhin, friend of the victim, visibly relieved like other relatives by the news of this arrest.
On Monday, around 200 people gathered around his coffin for a funeral ceremony at the great mosque in Strasbourg. His relatives, annoyed that the culprits were still at large, had demanded “Justice for Abdul”.
A woman and four young children in Afghanistan
Employed in a car factory in Mulhouse, Abdul Quayyem Ahmadzai leaves a wife and four young children who remained in Afghanistan, according to his friends.
On Twitterthe Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, welcomed the arrest of the alleged shooter. “The police always win in the end. Thank you to the investigators for their hard work”, he wrote. Shortly after the assassination, the minister had dispatched the CRS 8 to Colmar. This mobile law enforcement unit capable of intervening very quickly throughout the territory increased the checks for a few days.
The hypothesis of a “urban rodeo” had initially been considered as a possible trigger for this deadly brawl before being challenged. “Just because someone is on a scooter doesn’t mean they’re doing a rodeo”had noted, two days after the facts, the mayor LR of Colmar, Eric Straumann. “This arrest will make it possible to understand the circumstances of this assassination. Congratulations to the police »has tweeted the aedile.
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