The main suspect in the murder of Lilian Dejean, a Grenoble municipal agent killed in September, was arrested on Thursday, November 21. At 25, he has already been convicted 19 times. As RTL announced Thursday afternoon, he was arrested while on the run in Portugal. He fled on Sunday September 8, the same day the city of Grenoble cleanliness officer was shot in the chest while trying to restrain a driver after a traffic accident.
To achieve this arrest, forty investigators have been mobilized for two months with cutting-edge techniques, particularly in terms of telephony. Support from the Portuguese police made the difference in this intense hunt: “The judicial police of Porto used all means to very precisely locate the main suspect, taking into account the seriousness of the case and the facts which had been committed in France”, explains Damien Delaby, regional boss of the judicial police, who salute “effective collaboration”.
Abdoul Diallo, the main suspect, owns a heavy criminal record for his age. “He was first incarcerated at the age of fifteen, he has 19 convictions on his criminal recordmany for acts of violence, but also for drug trafficking. In total, he was sentenced to six years in prison over the last ten years”, specifies Éric Vaillant, Grenoble prosecutor. The suspect should be transferred to France in the coming weeks and presented to the investigating judge in charge of the case.
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