US EditionMan Charged with Murder of Young Mother in Southern France
The suspect, believed to be the victim’s stepmother’s ex-partner, faces murder charges after shooting Lizabete twelve times; the infant passenger survived unharmed.
- On Wednesday, Lizabete was shot dead in Nice, and prosecutors said on Sunday they charged a man with murder who was placed in pre-trial detention, Damien Martinelli said.
- Investigators found recent police custody and a court order against the main suspect, believed to be the victim's stepmother's former partner, who was detained days before Wednesday's murder for aggravated assault.
- A man on a scooter pulled up to the car and opened fire, repeatedly shooting the victim at point-blank range while Ayla, the seven-month-old daughter, survived uninjured.
- Nice city hall held a vigil on Friday and pledged to grant Ayla ward-of-the-state status, while the suspect was re-arrested early Saturday on the outskirts of Grasse, town around 40 kilometres west of Nice.
- The case highlights a domestic-violence backdrop, with the suspect's prior detention and court order not to approach the woman, prompting a Friday vigil and community support in Nice.
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French prosecutors said today that a man suspected of shooting a 23-year-old woman multiple times in her car with her baby in Nice, southern France, has been formally charged with murder and taken into custody. The accused is believed to be the former partner of the murdered woman's stepmother.
The suspect, arrested on Saturday in Grasse, was charged and placed in pre-trial detention for "murder" by an investigating judge, before whom "he remained silent," according to the prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli.
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The man arrested and charged turns out to be the victim's former father-in-law, shot dead on Wednesday in Nice alongside her seven-month-old daughter.
The man arrested on Saturday for the shooting in Nice of a young mother who was with her baby in a car was charged and jailed.
A 45-year-old man, a municipal agent, was charged this Sunday, January 25 for the murder of a 23-year-old mother in Nice. The victim, Lizabete, was shot while she was with her baby, who is...
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