As part of a European arrest warrant issued by the French police, a man, who was missing from the Avignon investigators in the Barbara murder case, was found 1,200 km from the city of the Popes , in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, according to information from Provence, confirmed by the Prosecutor's Office.
According to our sources, an Avignon resident aged around 35, indicted in this case, was arrested on December 25 by the Dutch police. He would be the last man of the trio linked to the murder of the young woman, killed at her home in December.
Her body was found on Tuesday, December 10, in her studio, rue de La Balance, lying half-naked in a bath of blood. Informed, the Prosecutor's Office then opened an investigation into murder involving acts of torture and barbarity by an organized gang.
The autopsy then concluded that the victim had died of strangulation. On the body of the victim, recognized as a disabled adult because she had been schizophrenic since the age of 17, traces of strangulation and bruises were discovered by the technical and scientific police. His face was swollen.
The suspect soon to be extradited
Officials will also find in the apartment “crack pipes and cocaine“. According to witnesses, the young woman would have spent the weekend in the presence of three men, all unfavorably known to the police, and also of her own mother, who, having not heard from her daughter in the days that followed, the police had warned.
Very quickly, the criminal trail left no doubt for the investigators of the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS). Currently still imprisoned in Batavian jails, the individual should “be extradited in the coming weeks“His return will coincide.”certainly with the return of the results of the DNA expertisewe are told, which will allow it to be confused with certainty“.