This Sunday, January 19, the Nîmes prosecutor's office has just revealed the detention of the alleged attacker of the Vergèze jogger. The 25-year-old man, confronted with solid evidence, admitted the facts as soon as he was taken into police custody on Friday in the premises of the Nîmes research section.
Imprisoned after his indictment for attempted murder, this is the legal fate of the alleged attacker of the jogger savagely attacked with a knife in Vergèze on January 11.
This Sunday, January 19, the deputy public prosecutor, Frédéric Kocher held a press conference during which he looked back on the sequence of the attack on the jogger who was attacked by surprise and stabbed weapon while she was jogging on a fitness trail.
The magistrate recalled that initially, the victim suffering from chest, cervical and shoulder injuries had to undergo surgery to treat six wounds. Frédéric Kocher also explained that the gendarmes of the Gard group had deployed considerable resources to find a man on the run and deploy “a large-scale operational device”, noted the Colonel Casso who directs the gendarmes in Gard.
“A knife to attack someone”
The Nîmes research section was implemented quite quickly and collected numerous clues such as images from the video surveillance of the City of Vergèze. The investigation into attempted murder also gave rise to numerous DNA samples which proved fundamental for the continuation of the case since, combined with the video images, they made it possible to confuse the suspect with certainty. Prosecutor Kocher specified that the suspect had declared that he “took a knife” in the objective “to attack someone”.
Facial recognition which makes it possible to identify the suspect who was on file at the TAJ
During the press conference, it was indicated that during the search, the knife used in the attack had been found at the young man's home with stains of the victim's blood which were revealed by DNA analyses. Similarly, DNA traces were also discovered on the attacker's jacket.
For its part, the Colonel Capsie who commands the research section revealed that the investigation focused in particular on the work “operating several dozen video surveillance cameras in the municipality over a fairly wide time slot”.
-Several dozen cameras to operate
The head of the SR explained that the images were of variable quality which had increased the difficulty in analyzing the images. Finally, a video sequence with a better quality document made it possible to find an image which could be compared to the criminal record processing file (TAJ). And this thanks to “facial recognition which allowed 80% of the suspect to be identified”.
Clearly, the suspect was on file for a trivial reason but had not been convicted by the courts. His photo was nevertheless included with his description. Then telephone cross-checks confirmed the suspicions.
He had just come out of hospitalization in a psychiatric department.
In police custody, this suspect admitted all the facts. He would have possibly acted against a backdrop of romantic disappointment after leaving hospital for psychiatric reasons. But he would have struck at random because he did not know the jogger.
He was imprisoned after being indicted for attempted murder. Justice, for the moment, has ruled that it was a premeditated act. The attacker theoretically faces life imprisonment.
The psychiatric assessment carried out during the investigation will be decisive in analyzing the mental state of the young man at the time of the act and ruling on an alteration or even abolition of discernment.
“My client, a young man in his twenties, spent 46 hours in police custody,
agreeing to answer the police's questions. He was indicted for attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor. The investigation will continue under the responsibility of the investigating judge.indicated Alexandre Zwertvaegherthe young suspect's lawyer.
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