The alleged murderer of a 17-year-old girl in Rouen was indicted and imprisoned on Thursday after escaping from psychiatric care at the hospital where he was placed at the end of October, the prosecution announced.
Héloïse, 17, was found dead in an apartment in Rouen on October 20. The suspect, the victim's former boyfriend born in 2002, was arrested the same day at Saint-Lazare station in Paris, while he was fleeing. He was placed in police custody but this measure was lifted, his condition requiring placement in psychiatric care.
Quickly found
The young man fled late Wednesday afternoon from the Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray hospital center (Seine-Maritime) but was quickly located in Rouen and arrested by the police, said the public prosecutor. , Sébastien Gallois. “Placed in detention on an arrest warrant, he was presented to court today (Thursday), indicted for aggravated murder and placed under a committal warrant,” he adds.
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“An initial feedback was immediately carried out” by the hospital center and a “national police security representative” which led to the taking of immediate measures to strengthen the security of the building and the surveillance system, underlines Sébastien Welsh.
