They arrested a woman for the murder of former cougar Federico Martín Aramburu in France

A woman was arrested in Paris in the last hours as part of the investigation into the murder of rugby and former Puma Federico Martín Aramburu, in the French capital.

According to the newspaper Le Parisien, a woman was arrested on Saturday night and was still held until the early hours of the morning. She is being investigated for being the driver of the vehicle in which the two alleged murderers of the 42-year-old athlete were moved.

The crime occurred on Saturday at 6 in the morning on a boulevard in District VI, in the area of Saint Germain des Pres and, according to the Parisian media, the woman has a very close relationship with the main suspect of having been the shooter.

The media reported that, according to its investigations, two shooters attacked Aramburu with shots and that the woman played the role of driver.

The violent event had a previous chapter that sowed the dispute. On the way out of the Le Mabillon night establishment, “a verbal dispute broke out between two groups of people” that ended in a physical fight, according to France Bleu. “The Argentine would have pulled noticeably on the hood of one of the men of the other group, causing him to fall,” the newspaper Le Figaro added about the event. Early versions warn that the conflicting groups were not previously known.

Minutes later, the aggressors of the former Los Pumas player reportedly appeared again in the area aboard the “Jeep-type” vehicle but this time to open fire after a new struggle. “A fight broke out between the athlete and another man. They fell in front of the Geox store. A third person got involved and the athlete struggled with two opponents. It was at that moment that a shooter opened fire from the car,” various witnesses told Le Parisien, including a man who saw the closed-circuit cameras that were being recorded in the area.

Local media talk about “five or six shots” and even that one of the killers chased him on foot to continue attacking him. “There has been a dispute, as can happen at dawn. It was fixed, but those men have returned and shot Aramburu three times,” a former Aramburu teammate at Biarritz Olympique, where he played between 2004 and 2006 and where he also served as president of the Partners since 2015 for three years, told AFP agency.

Researchers have not yet clarified how many bullet hits the former player from Argentina's CASI received and key in third place in the 2007 World Cup in France. Some reports point out that he was shot five times in his body, but other media indicated that there were four shots: one projectile hit the spine, another in the neck, a third in the right thigh and a fourth shot in the left area of his body. Although the ambulance would have arrived quickly, they failed to revive him and he died on the spot.

“Several witnesses report to the police that a man had shown a firearm, while another witness evokes a police bracelet displayed by a suspect,” RMC reported.

Federico, who had come to the place to meet with his partner in a travel company, lay on the sidewalk of a commercial premises. The crime zone was the 6th arrondissement of Paris, on Boulevard Saint-Germain on the way to Saint-Michel. The local prosecutor's office marked the case as murder and collected the tapes from all the security cameras in the area in search of identifying all the attackers. “The police stayed on the boulevard for several hours,” a witness told the newspaper Le Parisien.

Aramburu had traveled to France to be present in the mourning of the home country and England for the Six Nations that finally took place at the Stade de France, where a tribute was paid to this former athlete who was married and was the father of three daughters. The newspaper L'Equipe said it planned to return to Argentina today, beyond the fact that he currently resided in Europe.

Several French media outlets indicated that one of the attackers would be a renowned activist of the French extreme right. A person who has a military past and who in 2015 was linked to a case of aggression.

The person in question had also taken up media volume in the past after creating a clothing brand to commercialize his ideology that was relatively successful among that sector of society. “The shooter has been identified and the police are believed to know him. According to a source familiar with the matter, it is among others Loik le Priol, a far-right activist, who was therefore not alone,” said the RMC on its website.

The newspaper Le Parisien contacted the lawyer of the far-right militant, Xavier Nogueras, who refused to give statements.

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