He revealed himself when he was arrested as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), according to a police source.
In addition to the murder in Lyon, the police are questioning his role in several attacks carried out by his “modus operandi” like Evry, Dijon, Strasbourg, as well as Rotterdam.
A woman attacked the train
On Tuesday night, the railway police were called in after the attack on a young woman who was on board a train that was traveling in the south of France. Its author was arrested at Toulon station.
After checking the file of the wanted persons, the investigators realized that the man was under an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge in Evry and he was arrested, according to the Toulon parquet floor.
This warrant was aimed at an assassination attempt made on 23 October in the square in front of Evry-Courcouronnes station, where a sleeping man was hit in the face with a concrete block. First in the hospital with a prognosis that threatened life, the injured man was finally given a total inability to work for 45 days, the prosecutor’s office Evry explained to AFP.
A murder was carried out in the same way in Lyon, where a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was found dead on Monday morning with a large wound on his head, a bloody concrete block next to him. A CCTV camera filmed someone hitting him in the head.
Analyses, especially DNA, are underway to confirm if the man arrested in Toulon is indeed the author of this murder, according to Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran.
stone slab
The person was also arrested “suspected of involvement in attempted murder of 37-year-old homeless man”on November 5, near the Old Port of Rotterdam, Dutch police said in a statement.
In a wanted message, published on the Internet after this attack that put the victim into a coma, the Dutch police released an image of a black man, wearing dark clothes and wearing orange shoes.
On a video captured by a surveillance camera and posted online, we see him carrying a kind of slab on his head which he then throws towards a man lying on the ground.
The suspect was then on board an international train bound for Belgium, according to Dutch police.
In Dijon, in July, a 42-year-old woman, who was not homeless, was also attacked by a person who hit her in the head with one or more rocks, according to the prosecutor. The victim’s ITT was set at 10 days.
The suspect was identified as a person who had recently been the subject of an OQTF that had been contacted in Dijon. “Although she appears to be using multiple identities, it appears to be her. “ was arrested in Toulon, Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said.
“too soon”
In Strasbourg, an investigation was opened after the attack on a homeless man on October 30. The victim was initially taken to hospital with a life-threatening prognosis, but his life is no longer in danger, prosecutor Alexandre Chevrier said in a press release.
Investigations are ongoing to “Establish a relationship with the arrested person” in Toulon but “As the investigation stands now, there is no reasonable link and any conclusion is premature”he added.
In 2023, at least 735 homeless people died in France, according to figures published at the end of October by the Collectif Les Morts de la Rue, which specifies that“Significant proportion of deaths” he escaped. Although the cause of death is still unknown in more than half of the recorded cases, 5 to 6% are the result of an attack.
There were nearly 300,000 homeless people in France, including around 40,000 homeless, according to a report from the Court of Auditors published in early 2021.
2024-11-13 19:12:00
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