A 42-year-old man, who was locked up in Argentan prison in Orne, is actively sought around Angers, after fleeing while on leave at the end of June. He presents a “dangerous criminological profile” and is suspected of having killed two people.
A dangerous fugitive, who was imprisoned in the Argentan prison in Orne, fled while on leave. He is actively sought by the police in the Angers sector, in Maine-et-Loire. The man is “suspected of being involved in three criminal acts committed in Angers and Chailland in recent days”.
A 42-year-old suspect with a “dangerous criminological profile”
The 42-year-old man is “of mixed race type”, “measures 1.85 meters” and “has an athletic build with curly hair”, according to the description provided by the Angers prosecutor’s office on Monday evening, in a notice research along with a photo.
He presents a “dangerous criminological profile”, declared the public prosecutor of Angers Éric Bouillard during a press conference on Monday.
Originally from Reunion, he was serving two sentences in the Argentan detention center, one criminal and one correctional. The first is twelve years for attempted murder by a spouse or partner, the second three years for aggravated property damage.
· Suspected of two murders and one attempted murder
According to the first elements of the investigation, the respondent, benefiting from an exit permit to obtain administrative documents, took a train after his release from prison in Argentan and would have reached Angers on June 20.
On June 22, in this same city, a first victim, a 40-year-old woman, was discovered. The suspect was in the same prison as the ex-companion of this woman. She had also visited him in prison in the visiting room.
“We will find in the evening a woman in her apartment” who “carries marks on her neck” and “it will be established that she suffered strangulation with her bare hands which led to her death”.
An inmate from Argentan prison (Orne) is on the run. He is suspected of having killed a woman and a man after fleeing while on leave. © Judicial Court of Angers
On June 28, further north, in Chailland (Mayenne), “a 26-year-old woman who is starting a pregnancy will discover that someone has entered her home and will be the victim of an attempted theft of her vehicle and violence. extremely serious, attempted strangulation”. This victim was saved thanks to the intervention of a third party who intervened. The man then fled and took refuge in a vast wood, escaping the device put in place by the police to arrest him, details the prosecutor.
Saturday evening, around 7 p.m., a vehicle was discovered burning in Cantenay-Épinard (Maine-et-Loire), north of Angers. “The vehicle in question belongs to a person who will be identified on Sunday morning and who lives in Chailland”. The owner, a 72-year-old man, former town mechanic and municipal councilor, was found dead at his home.
“The assumption that we make today is that the owner of the car will find his attacker when he returns home,” said the magistrate.
About fifty gendarmes mobilized
The man, with a dangerous criminological profile, “must be arrested before another tragedy”, affirmed the public prosecutor of Angers, specifying that “very active research” was underway in the northern area of Angers.
According to Colonel Tanguy Landais, commander of the Maine-et-Loire gendarmerie group, 52 gendarmerie personnel are already engaged and more than 400 properties have been checked. Police officers from Angers take part in the hunt.
· Witnesses invited to exercise the greatest caution
Éric Bouillard, the public prosecutor of Angers, invited the witnesses “not to intervene and to contact the police”. He also asked residents of the area to lock their doors.
Anyone with items is invited to contact 0800 877 668 (or, in an emergency, 17) to report them, without trying to intervene, indicates the search notice.
2023-07-04 06:26:18
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