In Côte d’Ivoire, alleged perpetrator of murder of a young Frenchman “neutralized” by police

The man, suspected of having killed cold blood with the automatic weapon, in mid-July, an employee of Bouygues in the streets of Abidjan, opened fire on the agents who came to arrest him.

Le Monde with AFP

The alleged author of the murder, perpetrated in mid-July, of a Frenchman in Côte d’Ivoire, was “neutralized”, otherwise killed on Monday by the police, according to a press release from the Public Prosecutor D ‘Abidjan, published Wednesday August 10 by the Ivorian press.

“The investigations, as well as the hearings of the witnesses, made it possible to challenge” Monday “one of the respondents”, said the press release, adding that “on the indication of the latter”, the police Made in the Adjamé district of Abidjan to “arrest” a “second thug”. At the sight of the police, he shot them and “the response made it possible to neutralize it”, according to the press release.

/Media reports.