The main suspect in the case of the armed robbery that went wrong on Sunday March 22 in the parking lot of a supermarket in Simpson bay, was presented Monday morning to the investigative judge of the criminal pole of the Pointe-à -Pitre in videoconference then put in examination. He is charged with theft with a weapon as well as murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime for which he faces life imprisonment.
As a reminder, on Sunday March 22 at the very beginning of the afternoon, the suspect approached a man seated on his scooter parked in front of the entrance to a supermarket. He threatened her with a handgun to steal the device from him. For reasons not yet specified, he shot and fatally injured the owner of the two-wheeler. The victim died in the car park despite the care provided by the emergency services. Sint Maarten police issued a call for witnesses with their photo and launched an investigation.
Although the facts took place in part Dutch, the public prosecutor's office of Saint-Martin also carried out an investigation - as the law allows - because the suspect is of French nationality. This is how the individual was located at the home of his partly French mother in Concordia, where he was arrested early Friday morning by the gendarmes, indicates the Pointe-à-Pitre prosecutor's office.
The young man who will be nineteen years old next August is known to the police. He has already been convicted three times by the Basse Terre children's court in 2018 and 2019 for acts of violence in front of a school, violence and robbery in a meeting.
He is in pre-trial detention in Saint-Martin pending his transfer to Baie-Mahault prison. He is the subject of a criminal deposit warrant, specifies the parquet of Pointe-à-Pitre. Judicial information has been opened.
According to the elements of the investigation, it would be the shooter. Another individual is believed to be involved in the armed robbery but has not yet been arrested. (soualigapost.com)
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