Paris police have detained four people in connection with the murder in 2007 of Brahim Deby, the 27 year-old son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, sources close to the enquiry said on Friday. A fifth suspect has been arrested in Romania, the source said.
Deby was found dead in the underground car park of his apartment building in the western Paris suburb of Courbevoie in July 2007, apparently having choked to death with powder from a fire extinguisher. Closed circuit television footage at the scene showed that he was attacked by several masked men, investigators said. French police have ruled out a political motive for the murder, saying it was more likely a criminal underworld affair. The president's son was convicted a year before his death of possession of drugs and weapons after he was detained outside a Paris nightclub carrying a handgun.
Following the arrest, the Chadian president signed a decree stripping his son of his post as a technical adviser. He was then widely seen as having fallen out of favour with his father.
Source: IoL
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