UA man, arrested Tuesday evening, November 12 on a train in Toulon, is suspected of having killed a homeless person (SDF) in Lyon by hitting him with a concrete block and of having carried out similar attacks in other cities in France and Rotterdam (Netherlands).
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The individual presented himself during his arrest as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), according to a police source consulted by Agence France-Presse (AFP). In addition to the murder in Lyon, the police are questioning its role in several attacks carried out with a similar “modus operandi” in Évry, Dijon, Strasbourg, as well as in Rotterdam.
Cinderblock blows to the head
Tuesday evening, the railway police were called in after the attack on a young woman on board a train traveling in the south of France. Its author was arrested at Toulon station. After checking the file of wanted persons, the investigators realized that the man was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge in Évry and he was placed in detention, according to the Toulon parquet floor.
This warrant targeted an attempted homicide committed on October 23 on the square in front of the Évry-Courcouronnes station, where a sleeping man was hit in the face with a concrete block. Initially hospitalized with a life-threatening prognosis, the injured man was finally given a total incapacity to work for 45 days, the Évry prosecutor's office explained to AFP.
A murder was committed in the same way in Lyon, where a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was discovered dead on 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. Analyzes, notably DNA, are underway to verify whether the man arrested in Toulon is indeed the author of this assassination, according to the Lyon prosecutor, Thierry Dran.
A repeated procedure
The arrested person is also “suspected of being involved in the attempted murder of a 37-year-old homeless man” on November 5, near the Old Port of Rotterdam, Dutch police said in a press release. In a wanted notice, published on the Internet after this attack which plunged the victim into a coma, the Dutch police released an image of a black man, wearing dark clothes and orange lace-up shoes.
On a video captured by a surveillance camera and posted online, we see him carrying a sort of slab on his head which he then throws towards a man lying on the ground. The suspect was then located on board an international train heading to Belgium, according to Dutch police. In Dijon, in July, a 42-year-old woman, who was not homeless, was also attacked by an individual who struck her one or more stone blows to the head, according to the prosecutor. The victim's ITT was set at 10 days. The suspect had been identified as a man who had recently been the subject of an OQTF notified in Dijon. “Although she appears to use several identities, it seems to be the person” arrested in Toulon, said Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch.
In Strasbourg, an investigation was opened following the attack on a homeless person on October 30. The victim was initially hospitalized with a life-threatening prognosis, but his life is no longer in danger, prosecutor Alexandre Chevrier said in a press release. Investigations are underway to “establish a relationship with the individual arrested” in Toulon, but, “as the investigation stands, there is no objective link and any conclusion is premature,” he said. added.
40,000 homeless people in France
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In 2023, at least 735 homeless people will have died in France, according to figures published at the end of October by the collective Les Morts de la rue, which specifies that “a significant proportion of deaths” escape it. Although the cause of death remains unknown in more than half of the cases recorded, 5 to 6% are due to an attack.
Nearly 300,000 people were homeless in France, including around 40,000 homeless, according to a report from the Court of Auditors published at the start of 2021. At the start of 2023, there were 330,000, according to the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, a figure which has more than doubled in eleven years.
