A statuette of Hitler and ancient weapons: the shocking finds in the home of one of those arrested for the crime of former Puma Aramburu

With the only three accused arrested, the French Justice is working to collect as much evidence to present in the trial against the murderers of Argentinean Federico Martin Aramburu. Two far-right militants, Loïk Le Priol and Romain Bouvier, and a woman whose name is Lison and her surname has been kept under the care of the authorities, are being held in custody while the investigation advances.

This week, the renowned French portal L'Equipe had access to a source close to the cause and in an article published on Wednesday revealed that Bouvier's situation is increasingly complicated because two of his shots were found to have hit the body of the 42-year-old former rugby. In addition, the police carried out a raid on his home where they discovered objects that help to understand his way of thinking.

The 31-year-old man, who had been sentenced in 2017 to two months in prison for violence in an event dating back to 2015, was a member of the GUD (a union of far-right French students) and was, together with Le Priol, one of those who argued against Aramburu at the Le Mabillon bar.

The police had not been able to seize any weapons from him until the break-in at his home. Several old firearms were found there. In addition, always as published by L'Equipe, the authorities obtained in another search “a black powder revolver”, which Loïk Le Priol had hidden on the Alexandre-III bridge, a few blocks from the bar Le Mabillo n, where the conflict began.

At Bouvier's home, the men of the crime squad found a bulletproof vest with the Police logo, a statuette of Adolf Hitler and a copy of Mein Kampf (My Struggle), the book written by the former Nazi leader. These grisly findings coincide with what was published a few weeks ago by the portal S TreetPress, which revealed little-known details of the detainee who liked to define himself as “a fascist gentleman” among his most trusted people.

During his university studies at the Paris II law school, Assas would have done work concerning the former leader of the Chinese communist party Mao and the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. He currently chairs a literary club called the Roger Nimier Club, in which all its members “define themselves as right-wing anarchists”, as one of its members of the group revealed to the StreetPress website. In fact, another of those who testified described Bouvier as a “brilliant, cultured, well-educated” man.

His lawyer had said something similar in a short press conference. Me Antoine Vey called him an intelligent and calm person: “I knew him in his youth, he was a righteous and serene young man. He attended eloquence competitions and was also quite gifted.”

This 31-year-old man is being investigated for having been one of the alleged shooters who attacked the former Argentine rugby in the early hours of Saturday, March 19, in the middle of Boulevard Saint-Germain, an exclusive area of Paris. On Wednesday, March 23, Bouvier was arrested by the Nantes Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) in the French department of Sarthe (in the west of the country) thanks to the use of his credit card. While he was wanted by the police, he used the plastic in a hotel in Solesmes and then at an ATM. According to newspaper reports, he did not resist detention: “I was sitting quietly on a bench,” revealed the website L'Equipe.

His lawyer said that the only request they made was that their client be kept in an individual cell so that he could “concentrate, remember the details and put the chronology in place.” At the same time, when it was time to appear, the accused chose not to answer the questions put to him: “On the advice of my lawyer, I wish to exercise my right to silence,” he merely said.

Federico Martin Aramburu was shot in the middle of public roads and according to the first results of the autopsy, two of the shots he received were fatal. The former rugbier, a two-time champion in France with Biarritz Olympique, a club where he became a member of the board of directors and city where he lived and where he had a travel company, could not be reanimated by his friend and partner Shawn Hegarty or by the emergency services that arrived at the scene.

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