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A couple was found dead Thursday in a town near Deauville (Calvados). Since then, the police have been looking for a suspect, “potentially armed and dangerous”, and who would have been in contact with the victims. The man was finally arrested during the night from Friday to Saturday in Pas-de-Calais.
Wanted after the death of two people in Calvados, a man was arrested on the night of Friday January 24 to Saturday January 25 in Pas-de-Calais. “I confirm his arrest last night in Pas-de-Calais,” declared Joël Garrigue, public prosecutor of Caen. While trying to escape a police check, the man lost control of his vehicle and was arrested according to a source close to the case.
The bodies of a man and a woman aged 20, a couple, missing since Wednesday, were found Thursday in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, a town near Deauville. “A man aged around thirty, residing in the town of Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, who would have been in contact with the victims on the day of January 22, is currently actively sought by the national gendarmerie,” had the Caen prosecutor said on Friday, specifying that this man was “potentially armed and dangerous”.
-The autopsy of the deceased young man confirmed that he “presented head trauma and traces of violent blows to the face” and that he “was the victim of a gunshot”. The autopsy of his partner will take place “at the beginning of next week”, added the prosecutor. The Caen prosecutor's office said Thursday evening that it was unaware of “the circumstances in which these two young people were killed” and the possible motivations for the double homicide. “No hypothesis is excluded,” he said. A judicial investigation was opened against X on charges of murder and investigations are continuing under the direction of an investigating judge.
