A 17-year-old girl was found dead in an apartment in Rouen (Seine-Maritime) on Sunday October 20, 2024. Placed in a psychiatric hospital at the end of October 2024, her ex-companion, the main suspect in the investigation opened for aggravated murder, escaped from the establishment for four hours on Wednesday November 6, 2024. He was arrested by the police after his escape.
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Police have arrested a suspect in a case of aggravated murder of a 17-year-old ex-partner. He fled the psychiatric hospital where he had been placed. (Illustrative photo) | THIERRY CREUX / WEST-FRANCE ARCHIVES
Main suspect in an investigation into aggravated murder of his ex-partner in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), a 22-year-old man has been placed in a psychiatric hospital since Wednesday October 23, 2024. Wednesday November 6, 2024, Actu.fr reveals that he escaped from the establishment where he was placed around 6 p.m.
Arrested four hours after his escape
This flight lasted four hours in the metropolis of Rouen before he was arrested by the police around 9:50 p.m., according to our colleagues, confirming information from Paris-Normandy . He was arrested on Sunday October 20 at Saint-Lazare station, the day the body of the 17-year-old girl was discovered in an apartment.
The suspect was trying to leave France for Algeria. The prosecutor, Sébastien Gallois, specified during his placement that “the indictment will take place when the situation of the accused is compatible with an interrogation before the judge”.
