Wanted by Germany for murder, a Somali arrested near Lille

In his twenties, a man of Somali nationality and suspected of having committed a stabbing homicide in northern Germany on December 19, was found by investigators from the Fugitive Search Brigade ( BNRF) near Lille on Wednesday. Arrested, he will be handed over to the German authorities as soon as possible.

Stabs to an Albanian causing his death, perhaps on the background of narcotics. Here is what a Somali in his twenties was suspected of, of the facts committed on December 19 in Flensburg in northern Germany. Since then, the police across the Rhine had lost track of him, but they had also heard of Marseille in certain elements of the investigation of the suspect.

In the wake of the European arrest warrant issued on December 30, the German judicial police called on the Fugitives Search Brigade (BNRF) of the central direction of the judicial police. Specialized in locating individuals on the run, the French police solicit the “fugitive group” of the PJ of Marseilles which quickly identifies a possible point of fall for the Somali, hitherto unknown to the police and French justice.

“Entered by Menton via Italy, the suspect stayed for a few days with a compatriot from the Phocaean city”, explains to CNEWS the commissioner Guillaume Lacassin, head of the BNRF. But the devil has already slipped away. The staff of the BNRF continue their investigation, trace the technical elements and information and follow a lead given by the Marseille police: the suspect might want to go to England.

“This time, it is the” fugitive group “of the PJ of Lille which took over”, continues the commissioner. “And they got hold of the man on January 11 in a mental health establishment which houses migrants, in Marquette-lez-Lille, near Lille. The coordination between services and with the Germans was most effective, especially since the individual used concealment techniques and did everything to thwart police surveillance.

The establishment that housed the suspect did not know his background. Arrested, he was presented to the public prosecutor of Douai and will be handed over to the German authorities to answer for the facts of which he is suspected there.