Monday, November 11, a homeless man was found dead in Lyon, killed by a cinder block. A man suspected of four homicides using this same modus operandi was arrested in Toulon this Tuesday evening.
A man was arrested Tuesday evening in the south of France on suspicion of killing a homeless man in Lyon with a cinder block, as well as three other murders in other French cities and an attempt in the Netherlands. Low, we learned on Wednesday from police sources.
Arrested on a train in Toulon, the man presented himself as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). He is suspected of the murder of a Moldovan homeless man in Lyon on Monday. He is also suspected of having committed homicides.with the same procedure” in Evry, near Paris, Dijon (eastern France) and Strasbourg, as well as an attempted murder in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, according to another police source.
The man was the subject of an arrest warrant
According to another source, the alleged murderer, whose crimes spanned recent weeks, only attacked homeless people. French law enforcement cooperated with those in Rotterdam, where a homeless man was violently attacked on the night of November 4-5.
The man was arrested Tuesday evening by French railway police at Toulon station after the attack on a young woman on board a train. “After checking the file of wanted persons, they realized that he was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge in Evry.“, Toulon prosecutor Samuel Finielz told AFP.
“The man was placed in detention and measures will be taken to transfer him to the ordering investigating judge.“, or towards Evry, he added, without giving further details. Analyzes, in particular DNA, are now underway to determine whether he is indeed the author of the crimes of which he is suspected, according to another judicial source.
The scenes filmed in Lyon and Rotterdam
Monday morning, a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was discovered dead in Lyon with a large wound on his head, a bloody concrete block next to him. A CCTV camera filmed a man punching him in the head. An investigation into murder had been opened.
On the night of November 4 to 5, a homeless man was attacked in the same way in Rotterdam. The scene was also filmed. In a wanted notice, published on the internet, the Dutch police released an image of a dark-skinned man, aged around thirty, wearing a black raincoat, blue pants and shoes with orange laces. “This man seriously injured a homeless man this week with a large tile“, she wrote.
He was then located on board an international train heading to Belgium. After the Toulon arrest, the Dutch police clarified:investigate whether he is the suspect linked to the Rotterdam attack“. “At this stage we cannot confirm this“, declared its spokesperson Janine Tuinfort to AFP.
