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Nicolas Zaugra
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Nov 13, 2024 at 7:52 a.m.
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He was wanted for several murders including that which occurred on the night of November 11, 2024 in Lyon, in the Perrache district. French police have arrested a suspect who could be the one who killed a homeless man earlier this week on the street in Lyon, with cinder blocks.
The man, aged 32, was arrested this Tuesday, November 12 at Toulon station (Var) after having committed violence against a woman on a train coming from Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), say several media including The Parisian et Le Figaro. The latter would therefore have taken the train just after the murder of the homeless man from Lyon towards the south of France.
Suspect under OQTF
The suspect is under OQTF (obligation to leave French territory) and of Cameroonian nationality, according to the identity he gave. The thirty-year-old is the subject of an arrest warrant for attempted murder and murder, including abroad.
The woman warned the controller of the train departing from Marseille after receiving two punches in the shoulder and side, as well as a kick in the shin, according to The Parisian.
The Cameroonian was arrested by the police around 8 p.m. without a transport ticket and was placed in police custody.
Attempted murder filmed on homeless man in Rotterdam
Investigators quickly made the link with the individual wanted by the Dutch police since the night of November 4 to 5 last year. She was trying to identify a man filmed by a video surveillance camera trying to hitting a homeless man with a concrete block while he slept on a street in Rotterdam. A similar procedure with the murder of the Moldovan homeless man from Lyon, the scene having also been filmed.
The homeless man from Rotterdam once announced dead is between life and death in hospital, plunged into a coma, according to Dutch media.
Suspected of murders in Dijon, Strasbourg and Evry
The Lyon public prosecutor's office had opened an investigation for “assassination” at the beginning of the week, he told news Lyon.
Identity given to police this Tuesday would also be involved in three other murders committed in Évry (Essonne), Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) and Dijon (Côte d'Or). The investigation continues with the interview of the suspect in Toulon.
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