He had been waiting for this for more than two months. Since the death of his brother Lilian, a municipal police officer killed by two bullets in September in Grenoble while trying to stop a driver, Jean-Marc Dejean hoped that the person responsible would be arrested. On Thursday, a man suspected of being the shooter was arrested in Portugal.
It’s “a big sigh of relief”, he declared this Friday on BFMTV. “It was long, but we were calm about the fact that (the suspect) was arrested,” he continued, explaining that his family was now ready for “another step”. “We are waiting for justice to be done,” even if the sentence that will be handed down in the event of a trial “will not be equal to our sentence whatever happens,” he said.
Abdoul Diallo, 25, whose identity papers were found at the scene of the crime, should now be able to explain himself. He was arrested Thursday in Póvoa de Lanhoso, a municipality in the Braga region, by Portuguese agents.
On Sunday, September 8, Lilian Dejean, a 49-year-old cleaning agent and father, was shot in the chest while trying to hold back a man who had caused a traffic accident while driving a car. 'a powerful rental car registered in Poland. His death aroused immense emotion in Grenoble, whose inhabitants paid him vibrant tributes the day after the murder, then during a white march. He was then buried in Guadeloupe.
