PARIS (AP) — The Paris court of appeal on Tuesday ordered a man linked with France’s extreme right to stand trial on a charge of murder in the fatal shooting former Argentina rugby player Federico Martín Aramburú.

Aramburú was shot several times in the back in the early hours of March 19, 2022 outside a bar on Paris’ Left Bank. He was 42. The shooting followed an altercation.

The court ordered Loik Le Priol to be tried for murder. Another far-right activist, Romain Bouvier, has been charged with attempted murder. Lyson Rochemir, Le Priol’s partner, will face trial for complicity in attempted murder.

A trial date has not been set.

Rochemir allegedly drove Bouvier in the vehicle that followed behind Aramburú and then — at the request of Le Priol — allegedly altered evidence by parking th

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