The man suspected of the murder of a homeless man and several attempted homicides was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention

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 has been indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, the Evry prosecutor's office said in Agence France-Presse, Saturday November 16.

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, public prosecutor in Evry. “In the coming days, the Evry public prosecutor's office will receive all the procedures involving the accused from the public prosecutor's offices concerned”which will be referred to the investigating judge in charge of the case in Essonne, added the prosecutor.

Genetic analyzes have confirmed a link between the murder of a homeless man in Lyon on Monday and a similar attempted homicide in Evry on October 23, the Lyon prosecutor's office said on Friday. The suspect in these two cases was arrested at Toulon station 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 Evry, investigators are wondering about his role in several attacks carried out with a similar modus operandi in Dijon, Strasbourg and Rotterdam.

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 Evry, a man was hit in the face in front of the Evry-Courcouronnes station on October 23 while he was asleep. Seriously injured, the man was given total incapacity for work for forty-five days.