Fernando D., suspected of being one of the main members of the commando which allowed the escape of drug traffickers Mohamed Amra, was placed in pre-trial detention on Monday March 10, his lawyers announced at the France-Presse agency (AFP). Their client, nicknamed “ABE”, transferred from Spain and indicted in Paris on Thursday, had asked for a delayed debate before the judge of liberties and detention (JLD).
On Monday, the suspect arrived escorted by GIGN agents in front of the JLD, AFP noted. It is with a barely audible voice that man declined his identity, his date and his place of birth, the wrists always handcuffed. The judge then ordered the closed door.
Fernando D., 32, had been arrested at the end of February in a luxurious villa with a large security device in Mijas, in the province of Malaga (southern Spain). According to Spanish police, during the search, the investigators had found two loaded firearms, French license plates “Doubled” Or a luxury vehicle stolen in France.
“Approach” and “corpulence”
Published to France, he is suspected of having been part of the commando which attacked, to the bolder car and the assault rifles, a penitentiary van where the drug trafficker Mohamed Amra was detained, killing two penitentiary agents and wounding three others in the Punca of Incarville (Eure), on May 14, 2024.
Investigators have, at this stage, “No DNA, no papillary imprint, no telephone boundary that would belong to it, no recognition by any witness which would demonstrate that it was present”said one of his lawyers, Said Harir.
Investigators blend, “From what we understood”on the “Viewing of video surveillance” in which they assure having detected a “Approach” and a “Corpulence”notes me Hair. But “We have seen” Before the JLD “That he has no particular approach, nor particular template which would allow recognition”insisted Me Hair.