A little over a month after assassination of Federico Martin Aramburúthe former Los Pumas player who was shot after an argument in a Paris bar, revealed the details of the objects found in the house of one of the suspects.
According to local media, the Parisian Justice found, among other articles, a statuette of Hitler, a copy of Mein Kampf and works by Mao and Stalin.
Romain Bouvier, ex-militant of the GUD (a far-right French student union), he is one of those accused of having shot the former Argentine athlete on March 19 in central Paris, after an argument at the Le Mabillon bar.
According to witnesses to the murder, the 31-year-old man, who had been sentenced in 2017 to two months in prison for another violent act, which occurred in 2015, was the one who met Aramburú on public roads and, after a violent interdict , fired two shots into the ground that hit near his feet.
Immediately afterwards, the aggressor fired two more shots at Aramburú, wounding him in the leg and lower abdomen. Minutes later “he arrived at the place Le Priol (another of the defendants) who continued to attack Aramburú”.
As part of the ongoing investigation, the French Police carried out a raid on Bouvier’s home and discovered objects that identify him ideologically and that could turn the tide of the cause.
Several old firearms were found at Bouvier’s home. Also a bulletproof vest with the Police logo, a copy of Mein Kampf (My fight), Adolf Hitler’s book, and a statuette of the Nazi leader. In addition, among other objects there were works on Mao and Stalin.
Meanwhile, in the last hours, posters with the face of the former Los Pumas player appeared in Paris, with the legend “Fascism kills”, which would confirm the first versions that the Argentine had been “assassinated by the far right for opposing racism.”
Including a column from the sports newspaper The Team indicates that Aramburú died to defend his values: “Fede had in him the values of rugby, of humanism,” the text specifies.
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Bouvier was a student of the master’s degree in Judicial and Criminal Sciences at the Paris Law School. According to the portal StreetPress, he liked to define himself as “a fascist gentleman”.
In addition, during his university studies he would have presented works referring to the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Mao and the former Soviet dictator Iósif Stalin.
Currently, he presided over a literary club called Club Roger Nimier, in which all its members “define themselves as right-wing anarchists,” as one of its members revealed to the site. StreetPress. Precisely, another of those who testified in that article described the detainee as a “brilliant, educated, well-educated” man.
On Wednesday, March 23, Bouvier was arrested by the Investigation and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of Nantes in the French department of Sarthe (in the west of the country), thanks to the use of his credit card. While being searched by the Police, he used the plastic in a hotel in Solesmes and later in an ATM.
His lawyer said that the only request they made to the judge was that his client be kept in an individual cell so that he could “concentrate, remember the details and put the chronology in place.”
At the time of appearing, the accused chose not to answer the questions that were asked: “On the advice of my lawyer, I wish to exercise my right to silence,” he limited himself to saying.