Overview
- The court heard surveillance video that captures two rapid salvos of gunfire and shows Federico Martín Aramburu collapsing outside Café le Mabillon on 19 March 2022, footage that prosecutors say contradicts a self‑defence story.
- A medical examiner testified that the two fatal bullets entered Aramburu's back and tracked frontward, shattering his spine, puncturing organs and causing a massive hemorrhage that led to rapid cardiac failure.
- A Paris criminal brigade investigator told the court the speed and pattern of fire—multiple rounds emptied in seconds—looked like an execution rather than isolated defensive shots.
- The two accused, Loïk Le Priol and Romain Bouvier, continue to deny premeditation and say they fired after a fight, while testimony outlined Le Priol's troubled military record, his 2017 navy discharge and links to far‑right circles.
- The trial is before the cour d'assises de Paris and the verdict is set for 25 September 2026 with both men facing the possibility of life imprisonment, a ruling that could have legal and political repercussions given the case's public profile.