A 25-year-old young man was found dead at his home in Alès (Gard) this Tuesday afternoon. A suspect, close to the victim, was arrested in the evening in Marseille, when he got off the train, after being identified by a plainclothes police officer from the interdepartmental public transport security service (SISTC) who was returning from an internship , according to our information, confirming those ofObjective Gard.
It was relatives who alerted the firefighters when they had no news of the young man. His body was discovered lifeless in his apartment around 4:30 p.m. The police were alerted and the criminal trail was quickly prioritized. The victim may have been killed by asphyxiation. An autopsy will be carried out this Wednesday.
The suspect's car found in Nîmes
The first investigations made it possible to determine that the young man had “spent part of the afternoon with a friend”indicated the public prosecutor of Alès, Abdelkrim Grini. This friend had disappeared when the body was discovered and investigators began looking for him. They discovered his car empty of any occupants in Nîmes. The photo of the suspect was distributed to the police and gendarmerie services in the region.
It was ultimately a plainclothes police officer, who had seen the suspect's photo, who recognized him on the train around 8 p.m. before raising the alarm. The suspect was taken into custody. According to a source close to the investigation, the victim and the alleged murderer were a couple. Investigations are continuing and will make it possible to determine the exact circumstances of the facts, and in particular whether other people are involved in this murder.
