The man suspected of having murdered a homeless man in Lyon with a concrete block and of several attempted murders in France and the Netherlands has been charged and remanded in custody, the Evry prosecutor’s office informed Agence France-Presse, the Saturday, November 16. .
Arrested on Tuesday night at Toulon (Var) station, the man was “accused of attempted murder” Friday afternoon to “Acts committed in Évry on October 23”detailed Grégoire Dulin, Evry prosecutor. “In the coming days, the Evry prosecutor’s office will receive from the interested prosecutor’s offices all the proceedings relating to the accused”which will be sent to the investigating judge in charge of the case in Essonne, added the prosecutor.
Genetic analyzes have confirmed a link between the murder of a homeless man on Monday in Lyon and a similar attempted murder in Evry on October 23, the Lyon prosecutor’s office reported on Friday. The suspect in these two cases was arrested at Toulon station after the attack on a young woman aboard a train traveling through the south of France. During his arrest he presented himself as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
In addition to the murder in Lyon and the attempted murder in Évry, investigators are wondering about his role in several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon, Strasbourg and Rotterdam.
In Lyon, the body of a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was found on Monday morning near the Perrache station with a large wound on his head and a cement block next to him. In Evry, a man was hit in the face in front of Evry-Courcouronnes station on October 23 while he was sleeping. Seriously injured, the man was completely unable to work for forty-five days.
