the suspect, arrested in Portugal, accepts his extradition to France

The man suspected of having killed Lilian Dejean last September was arrested Thursday in Portugal.

The man arrested Thursday, November 21 in Portugal, suspected of having killed a municipal agent in Grenoble last September, agrees to be extradited, Portuguese police indicate.

Heard on Friday afternoon by a court in Porto (north), the 25-year-old suspect “was presented to a judge at the Porto court and agreed to be extradited,” said a spokeswoman for the judicial police. , specifying that his transfer will be done “in coordination with the French authorities” who had issued a European arrest warrant.

Expected in France “in 5-6 weeks”

This man of French nationality was arrested on Thursday around 5 p.m. in Póvoa de Lanhoso, 70 kilometers north of Porto, under the European arrest warrant issued by French justice.

“If everything goes normally, in 5-6 weeks, he could be in France,” Grenoble prosecutor Éric Vaillant said on Friday during a press conference.

Abdoul Diallo is suspected of having killed Lilian Dejean, a 49-year-old cleaning agent, on September 8.

This father was hit by a bullet in the chest while trying to hold back a man who had caused a traffic accident while driving a powerful rental car registered in Poland.