In the columns of The Teama local resident who witnessed the fight between the rugby player and Loïk Le Priol gives a startling testimony.
After fleeing to Hungary, Loïk Le Priol is sleeping behind bars in Paris. The 27-year-old man, a former marine commando and figure in the ultra-right movement, is suspected of having opened fire on former Argentinian rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, who was shot dead after an altercation in a bar in Saint-Germain. -des-Pres, March 19. A little more than fifteen days after the events, the testimony of a local resident who attended the initial fight published this Wednesday by L’Equipe sheds harsh light on the determination and violence of the main suspect.
Awakened by screams and insults
«This morning, I am sleeping. Despite the double glazing, I wake up to screams and insults. My first instinct is to go see. It is approximately 5:55 a.m., which has been corroborated by video surveillance images (…) Despite the time, there are many people at the windows, which testifies to the violence of the scene. It’s so violent, determined, and the man on the ground doesn’t react so much, that for a fraction of a second I tell myself that he must have screwed up and that he “accepts” to take a beating”says, in the sports daily, the witness, marked by “the determination of one of the guys“, Loïk Le Priol in this case.
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“Hegarty scared them too much. It’s a wardrobe!”
«He attempts to go back (after being separated from his victim by the bar staff), he continues to yell insults but is stopped by someone I haven’t identified. I’m sure if he could have gone back, he would have. I think if he could have killed him with his fists, he would have killed him with his fists. He was screaming “Your mother the whore!”», Continues the local resident according to whom Aramburu «just got screwed and doesn’t even try to hit back (…) He didn’t want to fight, of course not». «It’s very subjective but now that I know the profile of the protagonists, I think they went after Aramburu because (Shaun) Hegarty (the Argentinian’s friend who accompanied him) scared them too much . It’s a wardrobe!»
Heard for long hours at the scene of the crime by the investigators, the local resident, who left his home after hearing the shots, wanted to testify in The Team car «nobody talks about this fight, it was short but super violent.” In action, he saw Le Priol attemptto take something out of his pocket several times! I wanted to scream, I didn’t. I said to myself “they will take me for a psycho”. I said to myself at worst it’s a knife». «Fights, I’ve seen some, but this is weird, it’s the first time I had the feeling that it could go further, add the neighbor. He (the suspected attacker) seemed so determined. No one seemed able to calm him down.»
