The man was arrested Tuesday in Toulon the day after the murder of a homeless man in the Lyon metro with a concrete block.
The man suspected of having murdered a homeless man in Lyon with a cinder block and of several attempted homicides in France and the Netherlands was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, the public prosecutor's office said this Saturday, November 16. 'Evry (Essonne) to AFP.
Arrested Tuesday evening at Toulon station (Var), the man was “indicted for attempted assassination” Friday evening for “acts committed in Evry on October 23”, detailed Grégoire Dulin, prosecutor of the Republic in Evry. The 30-year-old is suspected of having hit a sleeping man in the face. Seriously injured, the victim was given a total incapacity for work (ITT) of 45 days.
The public prosecutor Grégoire Dulin told AFP he was considering the regrouping of all French surveys targeting this man, notably the murder in Lyon but also several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon (Côte-d'Or), Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) and Rotterdam.
In Dijon, in July, a 42-year-old woman, who was not homeless, was also attacked by a man who struck her one or more stone blows to the head, according to the prosecutor. The victim's ITT was set at 10 days.
In Strasbourg, an investigation was opened after the attack on a homeless person on October 30. The victim was initially hospitalized with a life-threatening condition, but his life is no longer in danger, the prosecutor said.
in addition to the attacks carried out in France, the Dutch police suspect him of being involved in the attempted murder of a 37-year-old homeless man on November 5, near the old port of Rotterdam.
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