A week after the fatal shooting near the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the investigation of the first judicial police district is progressing rapidly. The 46-year-old woman, who was dining at the Jet Set restaurant with the alleged killer, was arrested on Wednesday May 17 at her home in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine).
Nicknamed “Lemon” in the underworld of thugs, this Frenchwoman of Italian origin, is suspected of having “modified the crime scene to obstruct the manifestation of the truth”, underlines a source close to the case. But his friend and number one suspect, still at large, has not yet been located by law enforcement.
This May 14 around 12:20 a.m. in Washington Street (VIIIth), a customer leaves the Jet Set restaurant and opens fire on Charles-Louis Traore. This 48-year-old man was hit in the heart by a 7.65 caliber bullet. The firefighters were unable to save him. He was declared dead at 12:45 a.m. The investigators in charge of the investigations collect the images from the cameras because the whole scene was filmed. A casing was found at the scene. The officials get their hands on a ball gun, a replica of an automatic, hidden in the deceased’s underpants.
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The guards of the establishment say that the day before, they had been forced to separate the author of the shot and the victim. These two men, of Malian origin, were ready to come to blows over a financial dispute. “It revolves around gold and narcotics,” a source close to the case believes. And still according to the version of these witnesses, the day of his death, Charles-Louis Traore had come to thank the security agents for having him, the day before, out of a bad patch.
Two gold bars found at victim’s home
Sunday, May 14, the police went to the victim’s home. During the search, carried out in this opulent apartment, they get their hands on two gold bars and a luxury watch from the Patek Philippe brand. For several years, Charles-Louis Traore has put his suitcases on the fifth floor of this building on rue de Saigon (16th century). This small artery, wedged between the avenue de la Grande-Armée and the avenue Foch is ultimately not very far from the end of the sidewalk where he died. “It’s the Golden Triangle, 16th, 8th and 17th centuries, a sector of the capital popular with both wealthy people and thugs who frequent the same night establishments”, notes a Parisian lawyer.
In his building, this man did not make a good impression. “He was aggressive and unpleasant, remembers a local resident. For me it was not working. We saw him hanging around during the day. He was always in front of the building’s door smoking his cigar. “. In fact Charles-Louis lived with his partner who is the holder of the lease and who goes to work every morning.
Traore’s neighbors evoke a violent man
Since his arrival, he has distinguished himself above all by his aggressiveness. “He attacked the babysitter’s daughter because she was coming home a bit late from a party. They hung out in the street. Then he went back up to his house and threw milk cartons at her from the top of his window. “He also got into a fight with a security guard and another young tenant whom he reproached for organizing parties too often at her house.
Charles-Louis is referenced in England as the manager of an import-export company and he would have had children born from a previous bed. The police investigation has established that this man, known to their records, had no declared job. The police suspect him of deriving his income from drug trafficking or money laundering. An activity that could perhaps explain the financial conflict with the man who took his life.
Officials quickly identify their suspect, a 36-year-old Malian, well known to the establishment. On May 15, he was located near Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) where his ex-wife lives. But when the police arrive the fugitive has already left the scene. Two days later, they arrest the one he was having a drink with at the Jet Set. This forties, already known to the police, works for a travel agency. During the search carried out in his apartment, the agents discovered a struck casing of caliber…. 7.65, hidden in a jewelry box.
She makes a beanie and a cell phone disappear
The suspect is placed in police custody at the Bessières barracks (17th century). During his hearing, “Citron” recounts his evening spent with the alleged killer. He picked her up at the foot of her building before taking her to the Jet Set. “She explains that she was aware of the conflict between the two men and the start of the fight which had opposed them”, adds a source close to the file. When Charles-Louis Traore comes to the entrance, his friend got up hastily before swooping down on the victim. “She heard an explosion. Without asking for her rest, she picked up her things and she also grabbed a cap and a GSM mobile phone belonging to the 30-year-old, ”says our source.
Going out into the street, “Citron” got rid of the device and clothing in a trash can. Then she went home by taxi. For fear of being involved in this story, she voluntarily erased all telephone exchanges with this man. And the casing found at her home? It would be a memory found on the ground a long time ago. After her hearing, the woman was released.
The prosecution opened a judicial investigation into this criminal case at the end of the week. This weekend, police personnel were mobilized to secure the surroundings of the nightclub. The idea is to prevent any risk of brawls, attacks and excesses in this festive sector.
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