Overview

• The suspect admitted to firing and has been placed under formal investigation for the murder of a 16-year-old in Fleury-les-Aubrais.
• Investigators recovered four spent casings and an illegal handgun that contradict his claim of a single warning shot.
• Prosecutors cited his prior convictions, reported drug use and risk of reoffending in seeking pretrial detention.
• In Toulouse’s Bellefontaine neighborhood, a 23-year-old was killed by gunfire and the DCOS has been assigned to the murder inquiry.
• Police opened a separate DCT-led attempted-homicide probe into a throat stabbing that left another man critically injured, with no link established between the incidents.