The arrested man was also wanted in the Netherlands after attacking a homeless person with a concrete block, as in Lyon.
A man suspected of having killed a homeless person with a concrete block in Lyon was arrested in Toulon this Tuesday, November 12, BFMTV learned from police sources on Wednesday, confirming information from the Figaro a you Parisian.
The man is of Cameroonian nationality and is subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), according to the identity he presented to the police officers who arrested him after the attack on a woman in a train.
He was wanted after the death in the night from Sunday to Monday of a homeless man of Moldovan origin in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon. A bloody concrete block was found near his body and video surveillance images showed an individual striking the victim in the head. An investigation had been opened for assassination.
An arrest warrant for several crimes
His arrest allowed the police to discover that he was the subject of an arrest warrant for several other crimes in addition to that in Lyon: intentional homicide in Évry in Essonne, suspicion of homicides in Strasbourg. in Bas-Rhin and Dijon in Côte d'Or, as well as an attempted homicide in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The modus operandi of these crimes seems similar each time, with the fatal attack of a homeless person using a cinder block.
The attack in Rotterdam dates back to the night of November 4 to 5 last year. Dutch police released images of the man suspected of injuring a 37-year-old homeless man with a cinder block in an attempt to identify and arrest him. The victim is still in a coma.
Laury Holste, Pauline Revenaz, Emilie Roussey
