deux ans après la mort du jeune Lionel aux Aubiers, le point sur l’enquête
On the evening of January 2, 2021, a shooting killed a person Aubiers district in Bordeaux. It is the young Lionel, 16 years old at the time of the facts. Two years later, the investigations are continuing, in all 7 people have been indicted in this case for having participated in it directly or indirectly. 6 of them are currently imprisoned. The last arrest took place last September, according to victims’ lawyer Maître Herrera.
A major step forward
The most important advance took place three weeks after this last arrest, at the end of 2022. The investigators established a junction with another case dating from December 2020, attempted murder by shooting in Bordeaux. 5 people had been charged. And 4 of them are also suspected of having participated, a month later, in the murder of Lionel. “The bonds were strong enough”Herrera explains to me: the two cases were then merged by justice.
In two years of investigation, an examining magistrate also heard all the relatives of young Lionel. Telephone tapping was carried out before and after the events, “they confirmed certain elements.” All of the suspects deny to this day all that is reproached to them. In any case, the instruction is not finished. Will there be a trial in this new year 2023? “Unrealistic”replies Yann Herrera.