Taking the train between Marseille and Toulon to reach home after a day of work in the Marseille city is Marjorie's routine. A routine which caused him to have a very bad meeting on Tuesday evening.
As she boards her 6:57 p.m. train at Saint-Charles station, the young woman crosses paths with Levis E. She doesn't know it yet, but he is suspected of having notably killed a homeless person with a concrete blocklast weekend in Lyon. The police also suspect him of several attacks and attempted murders in Évry, Strasbourg, Dijon and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
To our colleagues from Le Parisien, she describes a “very tense man”wearing a hood and trying to hide his face.
“I started to get really scared.”
“He pushed me hard with his shoulder”she confides to Le Parisien. After asking him for an apology, the man violently kicked him in the back. “Out of fear, I told him to go far away”, she continues, still in Le Parisien. And to add. “He was throwing I see you, I wait for you (I see you, I'm waiting for you). I started to get really scared.”
This IT consultant then sends an SMS to the SNCF emergency number set up to alert in the event of an attack on a train.
“After a few minutes, the controllers came to me. They asked me for the description of the attacker,” she explains to Le Parisien.
The controllers then ask him to accompany them in the wagons to try to identify his attacker. “He was at the back of the train, he hid his head in a sweater”remembers Marjorie.
The SNCF staff then requested, via Emergency Police, an intervention by the police to apprehend Levis E. The arrest took place without resistance at the Toulon station.
A police officer recognizes him at the police station
According to police sources, the thirty-year-old, a Cameroonian under OQTF (obligation to leave French territory), was then brought, without resistance, to the police station.
It was there that he was recognized by a police officer. The latter makes the connection with a report broadcast during the day. It was the portrait of the suspect in the murder of a homeless man in Lyon. Emilio, the name of the victim, died following blows with a concrete block this Monday in the 2nd arrondissement of the capital of Gaul.
“The man has been placed in detention and measures will be taken to have him transferred to the ordering investigating judge”Toulon prosecutor Samuel Finielz told AFP.
In Lyon, a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was discovered dead Monday morning with a large wound on his head, a bloody concrete block next to him. A CCTV camera filmed someone hitting him in the head. An investigation into murder has been opened.
He is also wanted in the Netherlands
On the night of November 4 to 5, a homeless man was attacked in the same way in Rotterdam. The scene was also filmed.
In a wanted notice, published on the internet, the Dutch police released an image of a dark-skinned man, aged around thirty, wearing a black raincoat, blue pants and shoes with orange laces. “This man seriously injured a homeless person this week with a large tile”she wrote.
He was then located on board an international train heading to Belgium.
After the Toulon arrest, Dutch police clarified “investigate whether this is the suspect linked to the Rotterdam attack.” “At this stage we cannot confirm this”declared its spokesperson Janine Tuinfort to AFP.
