This Tuesday, November 12, a man was arrested at Toulon station. The latter, a Cameroonian national under OQTF, was placed in police custody, suspected of assaulting a woman on board a train between Marseille and Nice.
This arrest by the Toulon police could have put an end to the man’s criminal journey suspected of involvement in three other cases of murder or attempted murder in France and the Netherlands.
The end of the tour in Toulon?
It was a conductor on board the train who called the police for help around 8pm. this Tuesday night, after receiving a call from a passenger that she had been attacked by a man.
According to police sources interviewed by Var-Matin, the thirty-year-old man, a Cameroonian under OQTF (obligation to leave French territory), was then taken, without resistance, to the police station.
It was there that he was recognized by a police officer. The latter links to a report broadcast during the day. This was the picture of the suspect in the murder of a homeless man in Lyon. The person arrested on the Marseille-Nice train was taken into police custody. “After checking the wanted persons file, they realized that he was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge in Evry.said Toulon prosecutor Samuel Finielz.
In addition to being involved in the murder case in Lyon and the attack on board the train, the latter is suspected in three other cases. “according to the same procedure” in Evry, Dijon and Strasbourg, as well as an attempted assassination in Rotterdam. According to another source, he only attacked homeless people and the known facts are expanding over the past few weeks.
“The man has been arrested and steps will be taken to transfer him to the magistrate investigating order”or towards Evry, he said, without giving further details. Analyses, particularly DNA analyses, are now underway to determine if he is indeed the perpetrator of these crimes, according to another legal source.
A murder investigation opened in Lyon
On Monday, November 11, a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was found dead with a large head wound, a bloody concrete block next to him.
A CCTV camera filmed someone hitting him in the head. A murder investigation has been opened.
Attack in Rotterdam, the police had requested to issue a notification
A few days earlier, on the night of November 4 to 5, a homeless man was attacked in the same way in Rotterdam. The scene was also filmed. Initially pronounced dead, the victim of this attack is currently in a coma. In a research note, published on the InternetDutch police released an image of a black man, around 30, wearing a black raincoat, blue pants and orange lace-up shoes.
“This man was seriously injured this week by a homeless man with a large slab”she wrote. According to the Dutch police, the man was travelling “in a train”: from Rotterdam to Breda, then he took a train to Brussels.
She did not deny at the beginning of November that he had taken a tangent elsewhere in Europe or that he had returned to Holland. After Toulon’s arrest, Dutch police clarified “Investigate if this is the suspect connected to the Rotterdam attack.”
“At this stage we cannot confirm this”spokeswoman Janine Tuinfort told AFP.
A very violent attack in Evry in Essonne
Going back a little further in time, on the night of October 22 to 23, a man attacked a homeless person in front of Evry-Courcouronnes station in Essonne. Here again, as in Lyon, the video surveillance images show an attack with a concrete block. Unfortunately, the man is wearing sneakers with the same orange laces that are known and that are in the photos published by the Dutch police in the warning they wanted.
according to the Parisianthe assault victim was asleep during the assault. Injured and shocked, the doctors gave her a total disability of 45 days.
A woman was attacked with stones in Dijon in July
In addition to Lyon, Strasbourg, Evry and Rotterdam, the man could be involved in an attack that happened last July in Dijon. According to France Bleu and the Dijon public prosecutor’s office, a man was working according to the “same method of operation” in the Toison d’Or area.
A woman was attacked by a man who hit her in the head several times with a stone. The victim had received 10 days of ITT after being examined by a doctor, according to our colleagues.
Research is also opening in Strasbourg
According to the latest News from Alsace, an attack also took place in Strasbourg but again, it was not a murder but a real attack. “The person is not dead, their vital prognosis has been compromised” more “His condition is likely to be stable”, identify our colleagues.
The Strasbourg public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, which was entrusted to the Organized and Special Crime Section (formerly PJ) of the Strasbourg police station. The investigators believe, however, that the establishment of a formal connection between the two cases that took place in Lyon and Strasbourg would be considered at this stage.wither.”
