Lilian Dejean's brother declared on BFMTV this Friday, November 22, to wait “for justice to be done” after the arrest of a man suspected of having killed the municipal agent in September in Grenoble. He was found this Thursday in Portugal after more than two months of searching.
“A big sigh of relief.” Jean-Marc Dejean, the brother of Lilian, the municipal agent killed in September in the center of Grenoble, reacted this Friday, November 22 on BFMTV to the arrest in Portugal of the man suspected of having shot his brother.
This 25-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday in Póvoa de Lanhoso, a town in the Braga region (north), Portuguese police said in a press release. The man, who has a “history of violent crimes (…) took refuge in the north of Portugal after the events”. He was located and arrested with the help of the French police and will be presented to a magistrate with a view to his extradition, according to the same source.
“The whole family is happy to learn that this person is not going (…) to harm other people,” Jean-Marc Dejean said on BFMTV.
Lilian's family will now be able to begin “another stage” in their mourning, added her brother. The latter also wanted to thank the French police officers who investigated in recent months: “they did a huge job in cooperation with the Portuguese police”, he described. “It was long, but we were calm about the fact that (the suspect) was arrested,” assured Jean-Marc Dejean.
Strong emotion
Lilian Dejean, a 49-year-old cleaning agent, was shot in the chest early on Sunday, September 8, while trying to prevent a man who had caused a traffic accident from fleeing while driving a car. powerful rental car registered in Poland.
The father died shortly after in hospital. His death aroused immense emotion among his colleagues and residents, who paid him vibrant tributes the day after the murder, then during a white march. He was then buried in Guadeloupe.
A judicial investigation had been opened in particular for “murder of a person entrusted with a public service mission”. The suspect's identity papers were found in the abandoned car, a large car rented in his name.
“The arrest of this man today allows us to open a new phase and I believe that it is the phase of explanations,” said this Friday on BFMTV the lawyer for Lilian Dejean's family, Me Romain Ruiz. His relatives “need to understand” what “could have motivated this action,” said the lawyer.
“We are waiting for justice to be done,” approved Jean-Marc Dejean. The victim's brother wants to see the suspect “take responsibility for (his) actions” and have “awareness”. Even if the sentence that will be handed down in the event of a trial “will not be equal to our sentence whatever happens”.
