A man was arrested this Thursday in Portugal, two months after the death of a municipal agent, killed in Grenoble. The Grenoble public prosecutor held a press conference this Friday, November 22.
A man suspected of having killed Lilian Dejean, a municipal agent in Grenoble, was arrested this Thursday, November 21 in Portugal. During a press conference this Friday, the Grenoble public prosecutor, Éric Vaillant, provided information on the profile of the main suspect.
The man is 25 years old. “He was first incarcerated by the Grenoble children’s judge at the age of 15,” reports Éric Vaillant. “He has 19 convictions on his criminal record” in particular for “acts of violence” and drug trafficking.
He was sentenced to six years in prison “over the last ten years”, adds the magistrate.
The suspect's identity had been “known since the very day of the murder” since his identity card had been found in “the vehicle that he himself had crashed in front of Grenoble town hall before attacking Lilian Dejean “.
Submitted “in the coming weeks” to the judge
The arrest of the young man was made possible thanks to the “very hard work of the police and magistrates”, specifies the magistrate. But also thanks to “European police and judicial cooperation”.
The main suspect in the death of Lilian Dejean is currently detained in Portugal. It will be handed over “in the coming weeks” to the Grenoble investigating judge who had issued a European arrest warrant after the murder of the municipal agent, adds the magistrate.
