The suspected man of being the murderer of Philippine was indicted for murder and rape as a repeat offense, the Paris prosecutor's office announced this Wednesday, which makes him “incurring life imprisonment”, he also told AFP. He appeared before a judge of freedoms and detention who placed him in pre-trial detention. In the box, the Moroccan appeared hunched, his gaze fixed on the ground, before the magistrate declared the case closed.
This 22 year old man had been handed over to the police in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) by the Swiss authorities in the morning. Last week, he finally accepted his extradition which he had initially refused. He had been arrested in Geneva, Switzerlandfour days later the murder of Philippine, a 19-year-old student at Paris-Dauphine University, found buried in the Bois de Boulogne, in western Paris, on September 21.
He was under the influence ofan obligation to leave the territory (OQTF)which provoked strong reactions, in particular from the far right. After this murder and the arrest of the suspect in Switzerland, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau also urged “to develop (the) legal arsenal”. The suspect has already been sentenced in 2021 for rape, then released in June 2024, “at the end of the sentence”according to the Paris prosecutor's office. He was then placed in an administrative detention center in Metz. Upon his release, he was placed under house arrest in a hotel in Yonne where he never went. Having failed to comply with his reporting obligation, he was included in the wanted persons file the day before the murder, September 19.
