After the murder of a municipal agent in Grenoble in September, “more than forty investigators” worked to “hunt down” the suspect, a 25-year-old man already convicted 19 times, the authorities explained on Friday the day after his arrest in Portugal.
The case, “obviously a priority” given the excitement caused by the tragedy and “the seriousness of the facts”, mobilized “a maximum of human and technical resources”, underlined Damien Delaby, zonal director of the Judicial Police during a press conference.
The suspect, Abdoul Diallo, incarcerated for the first time at the age of 15, has already been sentenced 19 times, receiving a total of six years in prison, notably for acts of violence and drug trafficking, said prosecutor Eric Vaillant.
The suspect, arrested in Portugal after an international hunt
Sunday September 8, Lilian Dejean, a 49-year-old cleaning agent and father, was shot in the chest while trying to restrain a man who caused a traffic accident while driving a car. a powerful rental car registered in Poland.
An identity card in the name of Abdoul Diallo was found in the vehicle abandoned by its driver who had fled on foot, under the watch of a surveillance camera.
The “means devoted to tracking”, which neither the prosecutor nor the police officials present at the press conference wanted to detail, “ultimately led quite quickly to Portugal”, where an “effective collaboration” was established with the police and justice services, underlined Damien Delaby.
The suspect is currently detained in Portugal “under the European arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge” in Grenoble and will not be questioned about the facts before his transfer to France, explained the prosecutor. This one could take “five to six weeks,” he said.
“He probably thought he was safe,” said Eric Vaillant. Investigations are continuing into possible accomplices who helped him in his escape, but no arrests have been made.
