Clothilde* was simply returning from work when she accidentally crossed paths with Levis E., a man under OQTF and suspected of several murder attempts, one of which was successful: a homeless man died in Lyon during the night from Sunday to Monday from a blow of a concrete block.
But the young 26-year-old IT consultant knows none of this when she sits on her train Tuesday evening at the Marseille-Saint-Charles station. In his testimony collected by The Parisianshe explains that, like every evening, she takes the 6:57 p.m. one which should take her home, to Toulon. In the corridor of one of the carriages, she is violently jostled by a man whose face is largely hidden by a hood and a sweater tied around his neck.
Violent blow to the back
She asks him to apologize, he responds by giving her a violent kick in the back. “Out of fear, I told him to go far away”she tells our colleagues at Parisian while the individual sends him strange messages in English. Despite the fear and pain, Clothilde then had the reflex to send an SMS to the SNCF emergency number (3117) saved in her cell phone.
A few minutes later, the train is moving and alert controllers go to meet it. With them, she will go up the aisles of the train to try to find her attacker. The latter is found at the very back of the train, his head hidden under his sweater. The controllers will then keep Clothilde with them safely in their dressing room and call the police who will come and arrest the man at the Toulon station.
At the station, the police realize that Levis E. is not just a simple attacker on the trains: under obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) is wanted for three attempted murders in the Netherlands, Alsace and in Essonne; an attack in Dijon and the assassination of the Moldovan homeless person in Lyon.
Clothilde still suffers from the violent blow he gave her in the back and has filed a complaint.
* first name changed
Belgium
