The link between the murder of a homeless man in Lyon and a similar attempted homicide in Évry-Courcouronnes could be confirmed by genetic analyses, the Lyon prosecutor’s office said on Friday November 15.
Genetic analyzes have confirmed a link between the murder of a homeless man in Lyon and a similar attempted homicide in Évry-Courcouronnes, the Lyon prosecutor’s office said on Friday, November 15, three days after the arrest of a suspect.
“The genetic analyzes carried out as part of the investigation opened by the Lyon prosecutor’s office into the murder charge made it possible to establish a connection with the facts of which the Évry prosecutor’s office is seized,” the prosecutor’s office said. AFP.
The latter specified that he would “relinquish responsibility in the coming days for this investigation in favor of the Évry public prosecutor’s office in the interest of good administration of justice”.
Stopped at Toulon station
The suspect in these two cases was arrested Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var) after the attack on a young woman on board a train traveling in the south of France.
He presented himself during his arrest as a 32-year-old Cameroonian subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
In addition to the murder in Lyon and the attempted homicide in Évry-Courcouronnes, investigators are wondering about his role in several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon, Strasbourg and Rotterdam.
A man attacked in Évry-Courcouronnes on October 23
In Lyon, the body of a homeless man of Moldovan nationality was found Monday morning near the Perrache station with a large wound on his head and a concrete block at his side.
In Évry-Courcouronnes, a man was hit in the face on the station square on October 23 while he was asleep. Seriously injured, the victim was given total incapacity for work for 45 days.
An investigating judge was appointed after this attack and the suspect must be presented to him on Friday. The Évry public prosecutor’s office requested his indictment for attempted murder and his placement in pre-trial detention.
Public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin told AFP he was considering bringing together all the French investigations targeting him.
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